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From: heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)
Subject: Re: Fast Mitsumi drive < $200
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 12:18:27 GMT
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In article <1994Apr26.143343.2774@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
David "Fuzzy" Wells <wdwells@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>>Anyway, does anyone know if this FX-001D is OS/2 compatible?
>
>Yep, drivers provided by IBM.  This drive also works with Linux.
>
>
>	Fuzzy

Have you ever measured the speed with Linux?

Try
	time -p dd if=/dev/mcd of=/dev/null bs=100k count=9
	
I got 40 (!) Kbyte / second.

--
heiko