More a warning than a question. I downloaded a bunch of Mac stuff onto a 100Mb HFS format Zip cartridge at work to bring home. I also downloaded Windows 2000 SP3 and shoved that on a 250Mb FAT cartridge. Normally I transfer Mac stuff on 100Mb HFS carts via my Mac SE/30 (50MHz) and 100Mb Zip drive over a thinwire ethernet connection to whatever AppleShare server is available at the time. This evening, because I have a 250Mb cart to deal with, I' m using my 250Mb drive.
The performance is appalling -- after three hours, I still haven't copied the 78Mb from the 100Mb cartridge. The reasons are many (and I dare say I've missed out a few): -- 100Mb cartridges are read very slowly in a 250Mb Zip drive -- the SE/30 SCSI bus is slow -- old SE/30 ethernet cards (Kinetics Etherport in my case) are dog slow -- the network is thinwire and I don't think that the thinwire controller on my utp/thinwire hub is particularly fast For reference, the SE/30 is running System 7.1 with System Update 3.0, the usual 7.5 equivalence extensions, Open Transport 1.1.1 and Iomega Driver 5.1.1. The AppleShare server is a more than fast Windows box. Bring back small files and Localtalk.... Phil -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:compact.macs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:compact.macs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
