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Article #261Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
From: Henry McGilton
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:59
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:59
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In article <HARDY.92Jul26180640@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu
(Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
* If it is any consolation to you: copying a 1.2 MB file to a DOS
* formatted 1.44 MB diskette on a SONY MIPS portable took about as long
* as copying from the DOS disk to the NeXT filesystem.
Sun SparcStations are just as slow reading DOS floppies. I timed
it out once -- the effective transfer rate is less than 2000 bytes
per second. I had postulated they had used a serial (RS232) interface
to the disk, just like the ancient Apple II drives.
........ Henry
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp1.radiomail.net!fernwood!trilithon!henry From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$ Message-ID: <1992Jul27.155939.4554@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us Organization: Trilithon Software References: <HARDY.92Jul26180640@golem.ps.uci.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:59:39 GMT Lines: 12