andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Eisele) (03/14/91)
On my (lightnin fast) standalone NeXTstation it takes about 10 minutes to read a 1.44MB floppy which has been DOS-formatted and written (in less than 5 Minutes) on a SUN i386. Is this just normal, a hardware or a software problem? If it is a hardware problem, is is specific to my station, to the SUN i386, or to the floppies I use, or is it of general nature? If it has to do with the DOS-format, can it be circumvented by not going via DOS when doing file transfer between a SUN i386 and the NeXT (i.e. is there a common Unix-format for floppies, and if there is, how can it be used...) Thanks for any information on that topic -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Andreas Eisele Institut fuer maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung| |Tel.: +49-711-121-3128 Universitaet Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 17 | |Fax.: +49-711-121-3141 D-7000 Stuttgart 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany | |Internet: andreas@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+