tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) (04/17/88)
I had a horrible experience the other day for which I have no explaination. I was working on a uVAX 2000 with a TK-50 and two RD-53s (two expansion boxes). I did an image backup of the system disk, and it took over 4 1/2 HOURS to finish!!!! I've never seen an image of an RD53 take longer than an hour before. Anyone have any idea why this might me? (My theories are: a) disk was *horribly* fragmented (probably not, cuz it was the system disk and most of those files are put there and then left alone) b) the uVAX 2K doesn't have a tape and disk controller on the bus (cuz it has not bus) so the CPU has to do gobs more work than usual, and that slowed things down by a factor of 4. (maybe. i can try it again /nocrc, which should free up the CPU somewhat. but an image on a similar machine the day before didn't take nearly that long...) ) thanks for any help. ------- michael j zehr "My opinions are my own ... as is my spelling."