>From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> You are talking about pre 1993 drives. Do you know anybody who is still
>>> using a 1x or 2x CD-ROM drive from these days?
>>
>>Me for one
>I've also got one. My 1993 2x drive and my 1994 4x drive are
>still running in great shape as good as they did brand new. The
>crap they have put out in the last 5 to 6 years is designed to
>last 6 months so you have to replace it. I'd rather not play
>that game. We all know that a 52 speed CDROM is not really 52
>speed by any far stretch of the imagination after all... If the
>newer drives came with a set of earplugs I'd consider upgrading
>from a 4x to an 8x perhaps... ;o) A 40x drive is really more
>like 12x from my measurements...
So you never tried to copy a Audio CD... your old drive will not
allow you to extract audio at all or if, it will do it in
catrastrophical quality.
52x is a joke, You know that there are two different 40x Plextor drives?
The second was announced as 52x by some people outside Plextor...
Plextor only named it 40x too althouhg it _is_ faster than the old
one.
If I rip audio off a CD using the new PX40, I get an average of
32x. If I do the same with the old PX40, I get an average of 24x.
There is nothing prooving your statement that it is only 12x.
>The point to Jeorg being that there is no reason for me (or you
>Alan) to upgrade a perfectly good working drive that we are happy
>with and which works fine today.
I cannot believe that you are still running a P60 based PC from 1994. This
would be a lot slower than my 1989 Sparcstation II ...
Next point: non SCSI drives from 1993 are crap, they have only been
made by low quality companies and they have big problems reading
old worn out CD's correctly.
>>> OK, I'll try it but I thought that you as the integrative person may/should
>>> issue some pressure to the developers to help Linux to evolve into a direction
>>> that makes it easier to use for most people.
>>
>>I really dont follow that part of your argument at all.
>No kidding.. Jeorg, Linux isn't a company ran OS that Alan or
>someone can say "hey you - you must code this". It is "you have
>an idea you think is good, well then by all means show me the
>code, and we'll talk" OS. So Jeorg, where is that code?
Nice idea but it misses important facts:
- If Linux is maintained this way it will not improove in
quality and maintainability.
- Alan already _is_ deciding what is going into the kernel.
If he does, he should do it on a rational base.
- I am working mainly on cdrecord. The fact that most
people in this mailing list do not help other people
causes a high mail effort for me.
I not even have the time for other important projects
from me. Look at star, it is much better than GNU tar in
many points but as I did not have the time to add large
file support and incremental backups, people are still
using the crappy GNU tar...
... so why should I help other people with their work?
- I already _did_ what you propose and I miserably faied!
I started to make the Linux sg driver better 3 years
ago. Alan did not include my changes into Linux but
rather added some code of a SCSI novice (Douglas Gilbert)
who did some work on sg.c that was completely unnessecary
if the Linux SCSI system would have a decent structure.
A driver like the sg driver should never know about
scatter gather DMA at all! The effect of that decision
was that it took 2 years for Douglas Gilbert to learn
the basics of SCSI transport. Now we have a new interface
with a quality we could have 3 years eralier....
>Since you "know" all of the "problems" with this stuff in Linux
>so well, with your level of talent in the field of SCSI, I would
>think that you could design something between breakfast and
>lunch, and implement it before dinner.
>One would also think then that there would be no more problems in
>the Linux SCSI subsystem with which you would continue to
>incessantly attack Linux for.
Do you really believe that I make a second try and contribute
source to the Linux kernel after I failed so miserably?
J�rg
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