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Article #13909Re: Virtual CD-roms and DMS'ers for CD's?
From: Keith Blakemore-Noble
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00
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Christian Stieber wrote: > > Randall Lasini (suicyde@eck.net.au) wrote: > > > > My problem is I have a psuedo CD rom via NFS/ethernet/PC-soundblaster and > > it is only single spin as well. What I would like to do is set up a > > single 650M partition on my Harddrive(I am getting a 2gig soon), then > > 'clone' the CD across the network and put it locally so that I have > > Standard filesystem access to the CD's data. > > Hm... is a 4x speed CDROM really that expensive to warrant loosing 650MB > of hard disk space? It sounds like a weird idea, because I always thought > that HD space is more expensive... Yours woudl be a good solution in an ideal world, BUT I think that Randall has made an interesting and useful suggestion. For example, there may well be many valid reasons as to why he does not want to / cannot add a 4x CDROM drive to his current system. I use a CD32 / SX32Pro at home, and the CD32 is only 2x speed - something such as Randall is suggesting would prove very useful for me at times - having a virtual CDROM with hd access speeds is very useful. Just HMO, of course. TTFN, Keith
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1096f0,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gid1096f0,public X-Google-Thread: f6f0c,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf6f0c,public X-Google-Thread: ffc26,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gidffc26,public X-Google-Thread: 106ac0,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gid106ac0,public X-Google-Thread: 102591,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gid102591,public X-Google-Thread: f7331,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf7331,public X-Google-Thread: fee24,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gidfee24,public X-Google-Thread: f7e4d,14f3edb79bc7ea7b X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e4d,public From: Keith Blakemore-Noble <knoble@lsil.com> Subject: Re: Virtual CD-roms and DMS'ers for CD's? Date: 1997/07/25 Message-ID: <33D89544.33590565@lsil.com> X-Deja-AN: 258717963 References: <5ra1ik$q0t@news.mel.aone.net.au> <5ra2ot$itr@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Organization: LSI Logic Europe Ltd Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.emulation,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy