Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:30:53 -0800 | From | "Peter Gordon" <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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On 2/27/06, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: > This value is also reported by the drive. I don't know about DVD drives, but > for CD drives it is a multiplier. 1x == 256K/sec transfer off the disc [...] For CDs, 1x is actually 150 KByte/sec.
> I haven't had time to look into the DVD specification, but I'm guessing that > the DVD speed is about 3x what the CDROM speed is.
According to WikiPedia, the DVD speed rating is almost 9 times that of CD speeds. I.e., 1x DVD is about 1.32 MByte/sec.
Just to make sure that we're all on the same page. :) ~~Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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