From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 11 21:14:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA19901 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:14:42 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA19895 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:14:37 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA03659 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:14:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199509120414.VAA03659@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 1995 05:54:35 +0200." <199509120354.FAA27598@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 21:14:29 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >As Peter May wrote: > >> That should speed the performance of this already flaky driver up no >> end! :-) > >Badly designed: yes. But flakey? How? Why? > >We've got one of the fastest floppy disk drivers. :-) It's even about >10 % faster than Linux (for sequential reads), i've heard that old >Xenix' are as fast, and it's way faster than all commercial Unices >i've seen. (For sequential reads, and i consider them the most >typical _unix_ usage [tar floppy], we get 30 KB/s, that's 2/3 of the >raw data rate, and basically proves that we don't use revolutions.) The reason most people "think" our floppy I/O is slow is that they are doing msdosfs things with them. Msdosfs is a real dog in FreeBSD. >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================