From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 23: 7:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE1C37B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB5443E4A for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:07:44 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:07:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Very slow install from CDROM Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20020812060744068.AAA321@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have the ISO Image of 4.6.1-RC2 burned to CD. Trying to install on a P200-MMX (Compaq Deskpro 4000) with a Creative Labs ~24x CDROM and 540MB Western Digital HD. (I know, it's small, but I'm just doing the minimal install) No matter what I set the interface settings to on the HD (PIO mode 0, mode 4, EDMA) and even with both CD and HD set to DMA, and using the workaround published in the errata for 4.6 to set DMA mode, the transfer rate from CDROM is excrutiatingly slow, somewhere around 7 KB/s. This is crazy.. any ideas how I can speed this up? On another system here (350Mhz P2, SCSI disk/CD) the transfer rate using the same CD is ONE HUNDRED times faster. I realize the slower system should install somewhat slower, but not *that* much slower. TIA, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message