Hi! On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:20:07PM -0500, David Heinrich wrote: >I'm installing OpenBSD AMD64 current (4.5) as of 12/19/2009 12:11:00 >PM. I am at the step where it says "Getting base45.tgz"..it started >out saying it would require 40 or more minutes and seems to be >transferring data from the CD to hard-drive at a rate of 20 KB/sec. >Why is it going so slow?
>My DVD/CD drive has a DVD read-speed of 16X and a CD-ROM read speed of >48X. Given that, a trnasfer rate of 20 KB/sec seems awfully slow...am >I missing something? >MY HARDWARE INFO: >Motherboard : Asus Intel P45 1600 FSB 4x DDR2 Core 2 Duo ATX P5Q-E >RAM : OCZ TechnologyDDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 8GB Quad Kit (OCZ2G8008GQ) >Hard Drive : 1TB WD1001FALS SATA 7200RPM 32MB HDD Bare drive >CPU : INTEL Core 2 Quad Q9550 BX80569Q95502.83ghz >GPU : MSI Radeon HD4670 PCIE-512MB DDR3 Dual VGA/DVI (R46702D512) >PSU : 1050W Revolution 85+ PSU ATX12V Version 2.3 80PLUS Silver >Monitor : Sony GDM-F520 (CRT) >DVD Drive (Internal) : Samsung DVD Burner 22X SH-S223Q >CF Reader : CARD READER ROSEWILL|RCR-102 RTL >USB DVD Drive : a LaCie Lightscribe drive (disconnected from workstation) So you're using the internal one? >Keyboard : Northgate Omnikey Evolution >Monitor : Sony gdm-f520 dmesg output? Kind regards, Hannah.
