Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:40:23 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3M LS-120 support ? Message-ID: <199801281440.PAA12925@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > > In fact, they're _damned_ slow, only about five times faster > > than a regular floppy. > > Hmm. I was seeing around the 500K/sec mark out of the ATAPI Zip I was > testing last night. It's a bit hard to be sure exactly how quick it is > though as the machine it's on has too much memory. (ie. if you run > iozone <2xmemory size> the file doesn't fit on the disk 8) > > How does this compare with an LS-120? About the same. By the way, they also state on their web site that the drive is about five times faster than a regular floppy, and they say it's ~ 560 Kb/s sustained data transfer. These numbers don't quite match, since a regular floppy has an actual throuput of about 50 Kb/s. Anyway, it's slow in both cases. I'd recommend to buy an MO drive. Those 640 Mb MO drives are really nice. Sure, the drive is somewhat more expensive, but in the long run you save money, since the disks are considerably chaper than ZIPs or LS120 floppies. Regards Oliver Fromme PS: No need to Cc me replies, I read the list through a mail- to-news gateway (sorry, I broke the Reply-To header in my previous posting). -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
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