On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:52:10AM -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Hmmm, that interests me. Even if they're using 1000k bs-megabytes we > should be seeing about 620mb. The survey reveals everyone only seeing > around 600mb. Just to feed in another data point... /dev/sda1 610700 18 579656 0% /mod > >> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/disc > >> > 620680 131428 489252 22% /mnt/mo > >> /dev/sdd1 610700 18 579656 1% /mnt/mo > > > > /dev/sdb 610876 602762 0 100% /mnt Side comment: Someone earlier commented on how ridiculously fast he could fill his MO disk and specifically mentioning that it was much faster than CD-RW. I tested mine (by finding a directory tree containing 504M of mp3s) and time reported that it took nearly 10 minutes to complete the copy operation. In round numbers, 500M / 10 min = 50 M/min. Given that CD audio runs slightly under 10 M/min, I'd say that's roughly comparable to 6x CD, which isn't extraordinary these days. OTOH, this was on a Cyrix Pentium-150-equivalent system copying from an IDE drive to the SCSI MO drive using an ISA SCSI controller, so I would guess that the MO drive itself was not the bottleneck. But it was still a little disappointing... -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+