From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 06:40:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA01044 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 06:40:31 -0700 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01026 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 06:40:29 -0700 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.18.7]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA14858 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 15:40:15 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.9) id PAA06826; Mon, 15 May 1995 15:40:08 +0200 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 15:40:08 +0200 Message-Id: <199505151340.PAA06826@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: slow floppy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)