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From: marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis)
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Subject: Re: floppy writing very slow
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Date: 23 Apr 91 12:48:24 GMT
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Thought this sounded interesting, so as an experiment, I wrote this dumb
shell script:

date
dd if=/dev/rfd0 of=/tmp/tmp
date

and ran in on a Sun Sparc1+ with a 3.5" HD floppy.  It took 6 sec. short of
10 minutes to READ the entire floppy.  The resulting output file (/tmp/tmp)
was 1474560 bytes. 

Hope this helps.  (P.S. Running Sun-OS 4.1)