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- Slow Copy for Floppys
-
- Description:
- Basically this small utility can increase the performance of
- your machine when it copying files to floppy drives like Zip
- Drive. Let you use your computer and copy files at the same
- time. For a slow computer it is vital.
-
- The way it does it is to cut a big file into pieces, and
- copy it chunk by chunk. For example 4K a time, and then idles for
- 50 miliseconds. This way your machine will go much faster because
- it can process something else during idle time, although it is just
- few miliseconds but for a CPU is enough.
-
- I got this new idea is because the zip drive is simply make
- the computer too slow when it is active. That is because when
- a computer accesses for a hardware it still stop for the
- interrupt. So if the activity takes 10 minutes you usually
- have to wait 10 minutes or your machine will just go very slow.
-
- It will work for Zips and your Floppoies, actually any drive
- you think it slows you machine down when you copy things to it.
-
-
- User Manual:
- Buffer - Is the chunk size, the smaller the more chunks it will
- have to copy.
- Idle Time - The period when it finished copying one chunk. So the
- more value you give the more time it going take for the copy.
-
-
- Expirements:
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- External Parrell Port Zip Drive (not Plus)
- *Speed is in KB/S
- Buffer 8K 16K 4K 8K 8K 4K
- Idle 50ms 50ms 10ms 10ms 20ms 30ms
- Speed 49.5 67.43 45.28 64.30 59.08 37.68
- These data has taken for you to have an idea what the speed
- going to be like in a ZipDrive. The normal speed is about
- 150-180KB per second.
-
-
- Copyright Notice:
- This is a first release, it is free. Please use it what ever you like.
- If you feel it has helped you please come to our website and click some
- of the banners there, so that way we can actually get some money.
-
- Thank you for using it.
- You can reach us at http://e-port.yeah.net
-
- This software is programmed by
- William Yang
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- E-Port Software Team
- http://e-port.yeah.net
- eport@usa.net
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