Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 15:40:08 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: slow floppy Message-ID: <199505151340.PAA06826@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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My floppy is very very very slow.
copy 1.2 MB:
1) mcopy 50 sec
2) cat 165 sec
3) dd 165 sec
4) mount -t msdos 585 sec (!!!)
4) mean that I need 1 1/2 h for installing bindist! A poor null modem
is faster.
$ dmesg
FreeBSD 2.0.950412-SNAP #0: Thu Apr 13 14:11:34 1995
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 765
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
$ mdir a:
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory for A:/
CKSUMS 357 5-11-95 3:22p
DO_CKSUM SH 2475 5-11-95 3:22p
EXTRACT SH 201 5-11-95 3:22p
MANPAGES AA 240640 5-11-95 3:22p
MANPAGES AB 240640 5-11-95 3:22p
MANPAGES AC 240640 5-11-95 3:22p
MANPAGES AD 240640 5-11-95 3:23p
MANPAGES AE 240640 5-11-95 3:23p
MANPAGES AF 240640 5-11-95 3:23p
9 File(s) 10240 bytes free
$ time mcopy a:* /tmp >/dev/null
49.50 real 1.27 user 0.75 sys
$ time cat /dev/fd0 > /tmp/floppy
164.72 real 0.00 user 1.65 sys
$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt; time cp /mnt/* /tmp
584.49 real 0.00 user 5.17 sys
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 165 secs (8936 bytes/sec)
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