Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:02:11 -0600 (CST) From: mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes) To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zip drives horrendously slow Message-ID: <199712191902.NAA24985@logroad.bridge.com> In-Reply-To: <199712191834.MAA14113@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Dec 19, 97 12:34:29 pm
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They have just come out with a new zip drive that is faster. Paul T. Root said in email to me: > > In a previous message, Karl Pielorz said: > > 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... ;-) > > The SCSI would have helped, but the ZIPs are still slow. Something like > 35 msec. A better choice is the Syquest drives. They are all around > 10msec (9-13 depending on which one). I have 2 EZ135s (one work, one > home) and my friend just bought a SyJet (1.5 gig) that he uses as the > boot disk, 1 for Win95, 1 for FreeBSD, etc... > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > Don't Panic --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ _ _ _ _ , Loghome living is the ' ) ) ) / // ' ) / / best ! / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /--/ . . _, /_ _ _ / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_</_</_ / (_(_/_(_)_/ /_</_/_)_ Bridge Information Systems, Inc. /| St Louis MO |/ mhughes@bridge.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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