Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!rusmv1!rusmv1!andreas From: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Eisele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: 10 Minutes to read DOS-Floppy !?! Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 19:51:52 GMT Sender: news@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (USENET News System) Reply-To: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de Distribution: comp Organization: IMSV, University of Stuttgart, Germany Lines: 20 On my (lightnin fast) standalone NeXTstation it takes about 10 minutes to read a 1.44MB floppy which has been DOS-formatted and written (in less than 5 Minutes) on a SUN i386. Is this just normal, a hardware or a software problem? If it is a hardware problem, is is specific to my station, to the SUN i386, or to the floppies I use, or is it of general nature? If it has to do with the DOS-format, can it be circumvented by not going via DOS when doing file transfer between a SUN i386 and the NeXT (i.e. is there a common Unix-format for floppies, and if there is, how can it be used...) Thanks for any information on that topic -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andreas Eisele Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung| |Tel.: +49-711-121-3128 Universitaet Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 17 | |Fax.: +49-711-121-3141 D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany | |Internet: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+