Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!news.ossi.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Scott A. May" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Mitsumi drive FX series Date: 26 May 1994 21:03:39 +0300 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 23 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: "Scott A. May" NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Comments: To: sam brown Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list CDROM-L To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: <9405261430.AA27098@bigcat.missouri.edu> On Thu, 26 May 1994, sam brown wrote: > Le-Chin Eugene Liu (lliu@u.washington.edu) wrote: > : mjscott@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike J. Scott) writes: > > > : >Actually, I believe that this drive is MPC-1 compatible and only missed > : >the MPC-2 standard because it has a 32k cache rather than the spec'd 64k. > : >However, it meets all of the other MPC-2 spec's including speed, etc. > > : I'm also interested in Mitsumi's FX-001D. Can someone tell me how the > : smaller buffer (32k) is going to affect the application programs? Thanks. > > : Eugene > basically you'll need to use more system (ems/xms) buffers than a drive > with a 256k buffer. Between the Mitsumi's hardware-based 32K buffer, driver-based 64K buffer, and whatever external drive caching you choose (Smartdrv, Lightning, SpeedCache, etc) the Mitsumi 2x drive performs exceptionally well. A LOT of the performance also depends on your video card. SAM