On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:42:36PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Hmm, don't the current CD-RW drives have large internal RAM buffers?  If so,
> then isn't it more important to be able to keep the _average_ data flow fast
> enough - and less important to be able to transfer every byte with a very
> low latency?

I'm not sure cheap CD-RW have such a large buffer. Yes, it's the average
data flow which is important. But with the disk and CD-RW on the same
IDE channel you won't be able to do anything else while burning CDs.
With 2 independant channels you might.

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