Re: Xstreamtodev fails after 3%

[Bernd Sieker <bsieker%freenet.de@localhost>]

On 23.12.00, 17:18:54, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure it fails? ISTR that the percentage xstreamtodev shows is how
> > much of the available space has been changed, and not as you would expect,
> > how far it is doing its thing...
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it seems a bit short to transfer 16 MB (IIRC) in something under 20
> seconds.

In fact that seems like an awful long time.

Modern PC hard disks should do that in under 2 seconds, and even older
Amiga disks are often a lot faster than what you wrote. This is a
streaming transfer, i. e. only consecutive blocks are written directly
to the disk, which usually goes about as fast as the disk's hardware
will allow.

This is below 1MB/s only for _really_ old disks, which are usually
also so small that you would not want to install NetBSD on them.

> 
> But if, OK ;-)

Everything seems fine to me. Just try booting and installing ;)

> 
> I do not have the Amiga right here at home, I'll have another look at it
> at the beginnig of the next week. Thanks till here.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 

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Bernd Sieker

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