From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 09:38:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02197 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA02175 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:38:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA06228; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:38:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from henrich) Message-ID: <19971219123840.34873@crh.cl.msu.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:38:40 -0500 From: Charles Henrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Zip drives horrendously slow Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone know of any zip drivers that are in user space, or behave nicely in kernel space? If I do a copy to a zip disk with the ppb drivers the entire system goes into space, taking minutes to launch apps and other fun stuff. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong, of if this is "normal" ? -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich