From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 3:55:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B8715065 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stolz@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/7) with ESMTP id MAA19881 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:39:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (stolz@solo.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.103]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id MAA06829 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:39:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from stolz@localhost) by solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/1) id MAA06084 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:39:19 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:39:19 +0200 From: Volker Stolz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Erratic SCSI-ZIP throughput Message-ID: <19990909123919.A6053@solo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Organization: Temporary exile in Madrid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I always wondered why my ZIP is sooo slow (under FreeBSD, Win98 flies!), so I measured it using "ftp localhost" with a mounted ZIP and msdos-FS. Few files (all of about 5MB, give or take a few bytes) were transfered with ca. 1.8M/s, while most just made it to 80K/s and sometimes even below. I'm using the ncr810, everything is properly terminated. The problem occured under 2.2.x, too. Could someone please give me a clue to what's happening? Please cc: replies, Volker -- Volker Stolz * stolz@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message