technomage, those are typical speeds of a drive without DMA enabled. DMA on, I get 10x those. JTLYK (just to let you know) On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 20:58, technomage wrote: > hmmmmmmmm. > well, considering that its up to 10 MB/sec on most ata drives (more like 4 or > 5 MB/sec), expect it to take longer than an hour (it did in my case for a 120 > GB drive: 2 hours 12 minutes). > > Technomage Hawke > > On Saturday 26 June 2004 08:46 pm, plug wrote: > > Anyone have any idea how long that command should take to execute on a > > 80G drive? Does it actually drop back to the command prompt when > > complete, or does it start over at the beginning, when it finishes? > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Bryce C CoBryce Communications --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss