From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 09:45:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02729 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:45:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA02710 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00522; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:24:28 GMT Message-ID: <349AB39D.62C08A40@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:49:17 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Henrich CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip drives horrendously slow References: <19971219123840.34873@crh.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk That sounds like it might be normal... Some PC's have quicker parallel ports (if the drivers will support them) - but even my PP200 goes 'dozy' when copying stuff to the Zip, no matter if it's under '95, NT, DOS or BSD... :-( In fact, I was really wishing I'd bought the SCSI one instead... ;-) Kp Charles Henrich wrote: > > 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