From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 8: 5:49 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 54FA637B401 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E596443E4A for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from heater.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C12251CF; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:05:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020812060744068.AAA321@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <20020812060744068.AAA321@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 12 Aug 2002 10:04:09 +0000 Message-Id: <1029146650.344.2.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 06:07, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > 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 > I do installs on classic pentium hardware all the time, and from my experience, you should get between 150-200K/sec on the install, with the ports tree dropping to 20-30K/sec. Is the cdrom on the same IDE channel as the hard drive? Having them together on the same controller can cause a start-stop data transfer, and if the cache controller or IDE controller was broken enough I could believe (although it's a stretch) 7K/sec Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message