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[ILUG] DVD install

[ILUG] DVD install

Paul Kelly longword at esatclear.ie
Fri Nov 23 18:53:27 GMT 2001

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Gavin McCullagh wrote:

>>I am thinking of installing a DVD drive  in my home machine.  It is only a
>>P200 with 64mb running Mandrake 7.2.

> No DVD or CDROM would be as fast as an IDE Hard
> disk in data throughput terms

Why not? Some CDROM drives can sustain over 10MBytes/sec - chances are 
that's faster than a hard disk you'll find in a P200.

Paul.

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