RE: MD: Read ahead on MD.

2001-03-08 Thread Gerard Naude
First of all: >If it spins for ten seconds and is quiet for thirty seconds, that totals >forty seconds, the size of the buffer. I don't see how you calculated 1:30. Sorry, I wasn't being specific. I was merely trying to say that I think it buffers more than 40 seconds. It always has a buffer o

Re: MD: Read ahead on MD. Maybe someone can explain...

2001-03-08 Thread keithp
What you seeing with bursts of activity by the mech is to do with the 40 second shock memory. The memory is not only to take account of bad reading of the disc due to vibration but it allows the mech to save power and in the case of battery operated devices save significant amounts of power. Thi

Re: MD: Read ahead on MD.

2001-03-08 Thread David W. Tamkin
Gerard wrote, | I own a JVC XM-R70, which ever since I bought it have not had one single | complaint. In anyway, when I listen to a MD without skipping around too | much, I notice that the md starts playing the desired track. Then it reads | like crazy for say 10 seconds. Then suddenly it stops