On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:39:09PM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently had some time to play around with my all new Q60.
>
> I'm very happy with it, it is a nifty beast.
>
> This also gave me the opportunity to test the CD driver. Indeed, I (of
> course) waznted to get my usual setup also going on the Q60. Sp I
> copied my QPC QXL.WIN fimle to a CD (i've written abaout this
> before) and, with the help of many of you, actually managed to het
> it going.
> I had to change one instruction in the ATAPI driver, else it would
> completely crash the machine, but, once that was done, it works (if
> anyone is intered in the tweak, contact me, I'll be sending an email
> to Thierry a bit later to tell him about it, as well).
>
> I then used the QXLTOOL utility to transfer my files (about 40 MB
> in a 70MB qxl.win file).
>
> The good point : IT WORKS. I was able to tranfer the files from the
> qxl.win CD to the hard disk. As far as I can tell, there was *NO* file
> corruption or anything.
>
> Hats off to Thierry and J. Hudson.
>
> The bad point is: it is really s-l-o-w. the 35 MB mentioned above
> took about 36 hours (yes!) to transfer.
this is because qxltool often reads the qxl.win file 2 bytes at a time
and the CD driver has no caching and always has to get the full sector
anew. To get reasonable speed the qxl.win file could be copied to
harddisk.
Bye
Richard
