Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:34:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip drives horrendously slow Message-ID: <199712191834.MAA14113@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <349AB39D.62C08A40@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "Dec 19, 97 05:49:17 pm"
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In a previous message, Karl Pielorz said: > That sounds like it might be normal... Some PC's have quicker parallel ports > (if the drivers will support them) - but even my PP200 goes 'dozy' when > copying stuff to the Zip, no matter if it's under '95, NT, DOS or BSD... :-( > > In fact, I was really wishing I'd bought the SCSI one instead... ;-) The SCSI would have helped, but the ZIPs are still slow. Something like 35 msec. A better choice is the Syquest drives. They are all around 10msec (9-13 depending on which one). I have 2 EZ135s (one work, one home) and my friend just bought a SyJet (1.5 gig) that he uses as the boot disk, 1 for Win95, 1 for FreeBSD, etc... > Kp > > Charles Henrich wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of any zip drivers that are in user space, or behave nicely > > in kernel space? If I do a copy to a zip disk with the ppb drivers the entire > > system goes into space, taking minutes to launch apps and other fun stuff. > > Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong, of if this is "normal" ? > > > > -Crh > > > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu > > > > http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich > -- Don't Panic --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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