Date: 12 Aug 2002 10:04:09 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <1029146650.344.2.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020812060744068.AAA321@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> References: <20020812060744068.AAA321@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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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
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