10 Dec
2003
10 Dec
'03
6:57 a.m.
Using *ANY* floppy on a PowerMac is painfully slow.
When I was getting
ready to move from my 8500/180 to my G4/450 AGP I wanted to image a large
number of floppies that I had. I ended up doing the imaging on my
PowerBook 540c, transfering them via ethernet to the 8500 and burning them
to CD. That was a *LOT* faster than doing the reading directly on the 8500.
I've seen no speed issues with floppy disks on any of my PowerMacs. Nor
is there a speed problem with my brother-in-law's iMac and a USB floppy
drive (Imation?).
I've tested my slow USB drive on other iMacs, and its always slow... and
I've used my brother-in-law's drive on the same iMacs with no speed
problems... so I'm pretty convinced the speed problem is with the drive.
-chris
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