On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:29:29 -0800, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:02:05PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein spake thusly:
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:37:59 -0800, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > I'd be willing to bet your CPU was getting maxed because of issues
> > > with your driver, rather than the md5 calculations. Depending on how
> >
> > You know, I have been using computer hardware for nigh on to 40 years
> > now. And I have not recently seen such a misunderstanding of hardware
> > vs. software speeds.
>
> Heh....I assumed Christopher was implying that some combination of
> excessively frequent interrupts due to the IDE/CDROM driver and context
> switches to userspace to calculate the md5sum was causing the slowness.
I don't believe that I am using the IDE?CDROM driver at all, since
this CDRW drive is on a USB2.0 connection, and is seen directly as
SCSI.
carl
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