Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!phakt.usc.edu!not-for-mail From: jleon@phakt.usc.edu (Juan Carlos Leon) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Caching CDs, was Re: HELP on SpeedDRIVE, MSCDEX 2.23, Mitsumi FX-001D Date: 27 Feb 1994 10:51:43 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 43 Sender: jleon@phakt.usc.edu Message-ID: <2kqq3v$4ko@phakt.usc.edu> References: <2kno3s$sn7@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <1994Feb27.180210.28904@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu In article <1994Feb27.180210.28904@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> wdwells@nyx10.cs.du.edu (David "Fuzzy" Wells) writes: >Hyun-Min PARK wrote: >>Help!! I can't get Norton's SpeedDrive to recognise my CD-Rom (Mitsumi FX-001D) >>.It keeps saying error : the line SDCDEXT.EXE must contain the same parameter >>as the MSCDEX which is /D:MSCD001 . But IT IS THE SAME !???!! What gives ?? > >Personally, I would be impressed to see you defragment a CD-ROM. What >does "read-only" mean to you? Heck, if you just want to walk through a >layout of the disc, there are much better programs to do it. Like, um, >Norton's Diskedit in read-only mode. > > Fuzzy. > Don't confuse SpeedDrive with SpeedDisk, they're different kind of programs. SpeedDrive is a disk cache which also caches CD-ROM drives. I would say the program does a good job caching cdroms. I read this magazine (Multimedia) which reviews some cd-caching software for cdroms, they said caching software doesn't improve performance that much and that increasing the buffers in your mscdex.exe line could probably give good results. Anyone can comment on this? Do you think caching software is worth to buy? Juan Leon -- email: jleon@scf.usc.edu *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* Major in Electrical Engineering, Computers | --****-- | University of Southern California | | Los Angeles, CA. USA *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*