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
<http://www.mythtech.net>
10 Dec
10 Dec
8:44 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
<http://www.mythtech.net> 
9:24 a.m.
Have you ever tried comparing the speed of a built-in
floppy on a 68k Mac,
to a built in floppy on a PPC Mac? Like I said above, the speed difference
was extreme! Neither the PowerBook 540c (68040) or the PowerMac 8500/180
(PPC 604e) were using a USB floppy drive, they were using the built-in
drives that Apple sold them with. I've never really compared the speed of
the USB drive connected to the G4/450 AGP to the 8500/180, but as I recall
they felt about the same.
My 7300's floppy actually was quite a bit faster than my dual G4's USB
floppy (oh MAN is it slow), but both are definitely dwarfed by the
SuperDrive in my workstation IIci, which is so fast that I use it now
routinely as a disk imaging station (DiskCopy and a nice big hard disk :).
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