Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 15:57:51 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip drives horrendously slow Message-ID: <199712222157.PAA26548@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <19971222145240.28683@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Dec 22, 97 02:52:40 pm"
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In a previous message, Randall Hopper said: > Charles Henrich: > |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" ? > > Paul T. Root: > |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... > > I'm very satisified with the speed of my SCSI ZIP. Pretty fast IMO. > > We should qualify that the Syquest may be a better choice for speed. For > other concerns, not necessarily. I've slipped and dropped a ZIP disk a few > times, but haven't winced and prayed; just picked it up. The price of the > disks is nice as well. I've never given my 135 disks a second thought. Plus there only about $20. I think CompUSA has a deal for 3 for $40 or so, I don't remember the actual price. The big thing for me is that the Syquest is real SCSI.
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