Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:03:45 -0500 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip drives horrendously slow Message-ID: <19971219140345.41221@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712191834.MAA14113@horton.iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 12:34:29PM -0600 References: <349AB39D.62C08A40@tdx.co.uk> <199712191834.MAA14113@horton.iaces.com>
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On the subject of Re: Zip drives horrendously slow, Paul T. Root stated:
> 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...
I'm not complaining about the speed of the ZIP drive, Im complaining about the
fact that it takes FreeBSD down with it.. Maybe a userspace zip package would
be better suited to the task than a kernel driver.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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