> Why not the Nx speed (that is, 176 kb/sec)? That's more user-frendly.
why using this really pretty ramdom 150/176 kb/sec speed as scaling factor ?
think some years in the future, noone will still care about the historic
reasons that once there had beed audio CDROMs running at 75 sectors/sec.
and how should I specify 6.7x speed for my Toshiba 3701 ?
inventing another arbitray scale factor (10 or 100) for fix point represantation ?
or using floating point parameters for the kernel (ugh, just joking;-)
data rate in bytes/sec or similar is the most natural unit here IMHO.
but for data tracks IMHO it would be better to be able to be able
to set transfer rates in terms of 1x == 150kb/sec, 2x == 300kb/sec
as this is what you really get (but not knowing the details of the
real SCSI commands this might be harder to achieve..)
Harald
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