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Subject: Re: Slow floppy operation
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Maxim Vetrov <muxas@mail.ru> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've not used floppy in my notebook for a while, then when I did, I
> found that it worked veeeeery slowly :-)
> Here is the stats:
> 
>  > dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 607.571848 secs (2427 bytes/sec)
>  >...
> 
> Notebook is a Sharp Mebius PC-MJ730P, system is 6.0-RELEASE, compiled
> from sources. I don't know where to dig.
> Any suggestions are welcome.

What kind of floppy is it?  What kind of connection?
[Not that floppies are ever fast; the best I can get is about 10x that
speed.]