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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:43:16 -0000
To: "Maxim Vetrov" <muxas@mail.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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From: Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Slow floppy operation
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:50:51 -0000, Maxim Vetrov <muxas@mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've not used floppy in my notebook for a while, then when I did, I  
> found that it worked veeeeery slowly :-)
> Here is the stats:
>
>  > dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 607.571848 secs (2427 bytes/sec)
>  >...
>
> Notebook is a Sharp Mebius PC-MJ730P, system is 6.0-RELEASE, compiled  
> from sources. I don't know where to dig.
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Muxas

Floppy's & FreeBSD don't go well together, it's slow and kernel panics  
aren't rare...
The emulators/mtools seems to be a nice wrapper for floppy writing...