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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
- Subject: Re: Why are floppies in SS10 so darn slow?
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:28:47 GMT
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- >How come the floppies in our workstations are so slow?
- >They seem about 10x slower than the same floppies on MS-DOS machines.
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- How are you using them? If you mount one as a PCFS filesystem, throughput
- will be abysmal. Tar can be much faster, but the speed varies widely according
- to the blocking factor used. mtoools seems speedy enough.
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