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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: 1/2-speed receiving!
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.221805.13439@unixland.uucp>
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 22:18:05 GMT

I have a very strange (seems strange to me :-) problem ..

Last week, my ESIX (sysvr3) partition table/boot sector got trashed
when I booted from a dos floppy.  As a result, I re-formatted the disk
(a Maxtor 8760S), installed the base system from floppies, and restored
everything else from cpio 1/4" backup tapes.  The boot disk used to be
a Toshiba MK156FB if that matters.

Anyway, my OUTbound UUCP transactions are still fine.  On INBOUND
transactions, though, the speed averages almost exactly 1/2 of what
it was before!  This seems very strange!  If something were wrong 
causing slow speeds, that would be one things ... but like I said, the
speed is almost exactly 1/2 of what it was!  I deal with several 
different sites, so I know it isn't just a problem with one site.

I may do a re-install this weekend anyway (I had some strange problems
BEFORE the restore) that can only reasonably be dealt with by a re-
install) -- but that's a different story.  

I'm really interested in any ideas you people mgiht have as to why
my uucp INBOUND speeds would have halved after a file restore (and
addition of a third scsi disk - but probably not significant, because
I removed a disk and still saw the same transfer rates).  STRANGE or what?

Thanks in advance!

Bill

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