From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 07:11:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02481 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 07:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02438 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 07:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA19638; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:06:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23269; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:58:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199808041258.OAA23269@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: Mike Smith , seggers@semyam.dinoco.de To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI ZIP problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Aug 1998 12:47:28 PDT." <199808021947.MAA09419@antipodes.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 14:58:53 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > problems you're seeing are typical. The continuing lack of support is > largely due to the poor performance of the card; supporting it is no I once took a look at top when I copied a file on a MO disk attached to such a card. The CPU time used in interrupts was high and that was with a device which took less than 1 MByte of data per second. :-( > You would be best off, at this point, to discard the Zoom card and > consider the purchase of one of the better-supported, low-cost PCI That's what at least I will do in the end. As a solution to attach my CD-ROM and MO drive (used mostly for backups) it is good enough at present. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message