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Why is the process of recognizing an optical disk so slow?
Currently running a Core2 Quad, I find that putting in a DVD, CD or
Blu-Ray disk and waiting for the machine to recognize it and have it be ready to write to still takes about as long as it did on my first Pentium I machine. Why is this process still so plodding? |
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Why is the process of recognizing an optical disk so slow?
Doc wrote:
Currently running a Core2 Quad, I find that putting in a DVD, CD or Blu-Ray disk and waiting for the machine to recognize it and have it be ready to write to still takes about as long as it did on my first Pentium I machine. Why is this process still so plodding? There's more than one step to it. 1) The drive has its own processor (MediaTek for example). 2) The drive looks at the media tag on the media. 3) Once "recognized" in some way, an event is raised with the OS. It could be, that the OS polls the storage bus once a second, to detect that a new disc is "available". 4) Now, the OS portion cuts in. On a multi-type drive (CD/DVD/BluRay), the type of disc, the file system on it, will be playing a part. 5) The file system details, may require accessing a few different spots on the optical drive. Since the access time of modern drives is 110 to 150 milliseconds or so, that can be rather slow. Older drives, like some CD drives, the number for them was only 90 milliseconds. It's not an excuse as such. It's just there's a lot of "slow media reading activity" before the disc is finally available in the file explorer. It's still possible, for there to be a software problem with your setup, in which case, whether you have a quad or not, might not make much difference. For example, if you have some "virtual CD" software, that may be interfering with the detection of real physical drives. If you're a pack rat, and have installed every possible kind of ripping software out there, that can be part of your grief as well. I had such a virtual CD software on an older system, and if I tried to run Nero, it would almost drop the system to its knees, as Nero would discover the virtual CD and keep poking it. Once I disabled the virtual CD software, things returned to more normal time constants. Paul |
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Why is the process of recognizing an optical disk so slow?
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 19:37:12 -0700 (PDT), Doc
wrote: Currently running a Core2 Quad, I find that putting in a DVD, CD or Blu-Ray disk and waiting for the machine to recognize it and have it be ready to write to still takes about as long as it did on my first Pentium I machine. Why is this process still so plodding? Nothing to do with the Pentium class processor, but still tied to its own speeds when the technology came out 10 years ago for continued compliance to a user base within the same signal/bus architecture as today. Not as plodding as tapes or floppy media, just plodding for HDs;- for standards, still a lot better than most else as the universal go-to boot retort when all else fails. |
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