On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:43:32PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > >No, he is not correct. > > Gee thats funny. Then explain how my dvd-rom works just fine without that? > And I'm pretty sure the person I responded to got thiers working too. Your DVD-ROM "works just fine without that" because raw devices are not required for it to work. They ought to improve performance in certain cases by avoiding caching information that does not need to be cached. So for DVDs, raw device might help an underpowered machine skip less frames. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020612/8689eb08/attachment.pgp