Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:39:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970912103730.12404A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <199709120935.LAA03134@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Wild guess: driver needs to recalibrate every once in a while, so if you > > write a whole floppy at once, it slowly loses calibration. MS-DOS > > `recalibrates' by writing the FAT every block or so. How does that sound? > > I doubt it writes the fat so often, performance would be much worse > than the 30-40K/s we get now... > > Luigi It IS worse! I know that my floppies run about 14-15 kb/sec sustained. FTP'ing from a Linux floppy to FreeBSD (since my floppy drive doesn't work w/ FreeBSD) always goes about 14-15 kb/sec. dd gives similar results. Kevin
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