[ILUG] DVD install
John P. Looney
john at antefacto.com
Mon Nov 26 09:56:17 GMT 2001
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 01:41:09PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh mentioned:
> > Why not? Some CDROM drives can sustain over 10MBytes/sec - chances are
> > that's faster than a hard disk you'll find in a P200.
> Fair enough I suppose. Although 10MB/sec has gotta be a pretty flash CDROM
> drive (I did assume it's IDE given the system). Either way the system is
> not likely to be cased a problem by a drive being too quick, it simply
> won't use the full potential.
A 66 speed CDROM will do 10MB/sec....not sure how easy they are to get,
but a 52x one should be easy enough...
Kate
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