Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:32:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | "The Rev. Threshar" <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #838 |
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu wrote:
> Am 02-Apr-97 schrieb Curtis' test dude: > > >Yes it does suck... I am glad to see I'm not the only one... It took about > >an hour for me to transfer 100M from my linux box to a zip disk. > > > Same for me! HDParm says that uncached speed is about 0,03MB/s, but cached it > says something like 28,5MB/s ...but this speed is a joke, because as soon as > I'm access the ZIP drive after writing to it (which is really fast first!), th > ZIP Drive writes and writes for about 10mins...seems that the driver loads in > all write access into memory and sync it down to the ZIP drive as soon as it > is accessed...under DOS/Windows the ZIP drive is much much faster... > I guess you people have not found the wonderful Curtin driver. It makes parellel zipdrives perform the Right Way(tm). With the standard kernel ppa driver hdparm reported .05mb/sec. With teh Curtin driver I get .58mb/sec. Quite an impovement eh? For more info check out http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~campbell/ It also works with the new parport stuff.
-Jeff Trout <threshar@torgo.ml.org> Linux Archive Search: http://torgo.ml.org/las Linux Software Serach: http://torgo.ml.org/las/lss.html
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