Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Pioneer Quadraspin 18
From: douglas.carpenter@cld9.com (Douglas Carpenter)
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Date: Sat,  5 Mar 94 16:25:00 -0600
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-> : -> Yeah, it looks nice, but I've been hearing that this unit has a
-> pedestrian : -> access
-> : -> time and it's cache is right out of the Stone Age.
-> : ->
-> : -> Anybody out there own one?  Is it as hot as advertised?
->
-> : I wouldn't exactly consider a unit that has a 300ms access rate and 612kb
-> : quadra spin transfer rate out of the stone age.  NEC is the only one so
-> far : that even has come close to offering a quadra spin drive.
->
-> Excuse me?  Pioneer was offering quadra-spin in the DRM-60X series jukeboxes
-> back when NEC was still doing double spin.  Has NEC ever fixed the problem
-> their drives have with locking up the SCSI bus if they receive a request to
-> negotiate synchronization?

Yes, my comment was directed that NEC is the only vendor offering a single
CDROM drive unit so far that is quadra spin.  The 604X from Pioneer is indeed
Quadra Spin and has been out for over a year, but it is a 6 CDROM changer.
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