Re: Somewhat OT question about CD-ROM speeds

Norm Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:    The reason I asked was that I have an ancient SCSI CD-ROM drive for my
: SGU Indigo2 which I believed to be a 1x drive.  It achieved a sustained
: transfer rate of 8.6 MB/Min or 146 MB/Sec so I guess that indeed verifies my
: suspicion that it is indeed 1x.  BTW, if anyone asks you, it takes ~72
: minutes to transfer the contents of a full (655MB) CD-ROM at 1x.
:

Observant readers will notice that one full CD contains 72 minutes of 
audio... I'm pretty sure that this is why 1x was chosen as what it is :)

--buddy