Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:10:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mtools and speed Message-ID: <9704031710.AA04462@merlin.ukrv.de>
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Hi ! Can anyone tell me why the mtools are getting slowly when I write to SCSI disks instead of IDE disks ? At home I have a SCSI disk partitioned in FreeBSD/DOS partitions and when I'm using mcopy to write onto the DOS partition I get a rate of nearly 10KB/s. Even a mdir command acts very slow, sometimes the whole system freezes for maybe 15 seconds. At work I have a Toshiba laptop with an IDE disk (also 1 DOS and 1 FreeBSD partition on it). When I'm writing to the DOS partition with mcopy it's really fast (I think nearly 1 MB/s). An mdir is also very fast. So what can I do ? Is it a SCSI-problem ? I have an Adaptec 2940AU and all of my disks act the same...:-( By the way, I'm only using the msdosfs when reading DOS files. I trashed my disk too often after writing to it, so I have to use the mtools because they're working perfectly. Just too slow...:-( Thanx for any help ! Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!
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