On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> As I write this I am playing 16 bit sound, reading a tar from the zip drive and
> printing !! Ya know what ? On my machine it sucks!!
Is the Zip drive an IDE device? If so, take a look at the hdparm(8)
command, especially the "-u" flag. With proper tweaking of the IDE driver,
performance gains (in terms of raw disk throughput) of 400% aren't unheard of.
Just be sure to test your changes first; under rare conditions, data loss can
result from overzealous tweaking.
If the Zip drive is a SCSI device, you might have a crummy SCSI card, or you
might need to tweak the device driver for the card for better performance.
Such tweaking is a bit of a black art. You generally have to hunt around in
the kernel source code for the driver (look in $KERNEL_SOURCE/drivers/scsi/)
looking for #define's and similar. On the plus side, they will usually be
well commented, and you may even find a README file. If it is just a crummy
SCSI card, good ones can be had for well under $100 at the shows these days.
If the Zip drive is a parallel port device, bash it up with a hammer and
then burn it. Those things are evil.
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