On Apr 11, 3:05 am, charliefrown <[email protected]> wrote: > hello, I keep two Wallstreet PDQs alive (266 and 300 mhz) just for the > beauty of MacOS 9 and snappiness of those old apps . Last time I tried > to copy 170 mb file from CD to my hard drive and it took like 5 > minutes (!). C'mon is this a normal result? Is it because of original > cdrom (24x AFAIR), built in 4200 RPM hard drive (fragmented) or maybe > poor ATA bus speed? The third factor is the one I suspect the most, as > I used ancient Toshiba Portege with the similiar specs and it wasn't > *THAT* sluggish in a field of data transfer speed.
Could be a failing drive. I run into that issue a lot on machines that are SLOW. Keep in mind that the Wallstreet has a max transfer rate of 16.7MB/s and the 24x CD-ROM has a max transfer speed of about 3MB/s. That kind of transfer should take about a minute or 2. 5 mins seems a bit high. Is it a burned disk? The Wallstreet DVD drives suck at reading burned CDs and both of mine refuse to read any burned DVDs. Also, if the CD has any kind of scratches it can cause the CD drive to drop to a PIO mode which will SLOW it down alot and use up processor cycles. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
