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Subject: Re: SCSI Zip Slow?
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From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
Date: 24 Jan 1998 10:57:27 -0600
In-Reply-To: Charles Henrich's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:24:37 -0500"
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Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> writes:
> Does anyone else out there have a SCSI Zip drive and get reasonable transfer
> rates?  Under windows I see about 800K/sec, boot into FreeBSD, and I get 90..
> Any suggestions?

What are you using to test this?  I've done dumps to files on a UFS
filesystem on a Zip disk, and I've certainly seen throughput in the
600KB/second range.  I don't think I've done anything unusual,
configuration-wise, to achieve this.

If you're trying to read/write from a DOS filesystem, I suspect you'd
see lower throughput, but I don't really know.

-Dave