Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!pacbell.com!ames!haven!umd5!lewhoosh.umd.edu!matthews From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How do you backup 105 MB Disk ? Message-ID: <7788@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 2 Jan 91 17:55:39 GMT References: Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 27 In article lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Lawrence Clarke) writes: >Why does it take so long to write/read to the floppy drive ? I've boosted >the priority of the process writing/reading to the floppy (with the RENICE >command) but it doesn't seem to help much . Because the floppy drive is real slow. It isn't too bad in native Unix, from my experience, but MS DOS disks are about as slow as ... as ... dare I say, Commodore Amiga disks. :-) No flames wars please. Also, while I'm here, I've had my computer almost totally lock up when trying to stick an MS DOS disk in there. Frequently I get internal sig errors or something, please save your changes before I log you out messages. Also frequently, you stick the disk in there, and it gets bad label or magic number messages on /dev/console, and the disk just kind of sits there but never gets mounted. You have to go into the monitor and do an ef to get it out. I tried umounting the floppy, but that was a pretty stupid move. Unmounting doesn't eject... >| lclarke@questor.wimsey.bc.ca | c/o TRIUMF Operations | ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet) ------ "But don't you see, the color of wine in a crystal glass can be spiritual. The look in a face, the music of a violin. A Paris theater can be infused with the spiritual for all its solidity." -- Lestat, _The Vampire Lestat_, Anne Rice