Something that will bring a 1.4GHz to it's knees!

[Jugernot]

Using a Parallel port zip drive! When I transfer anything of size (larger than 20megs) it bogs my whole system down to a point where it's barely useable! 100% CPU usage.... WTF? Why are CPUs even of today's speed bogged down by something as simple as a parallel port?

Jugs

 

[D0zE]

Becuase your hard drive is still transfering at the same rate, not faster...
Get a faster hard disk drive.
Dual cpu helps a lot, u won't notice the slow down at all... (that is if ur running freebsd or (linux or whatever supports SMP) like Windows 2000.

 

[Jugernot]

Nah, I've got a 45gig IBM 75GXP, plenty fast.

 

[WarCon]

Well, I think its just poor controller designs that have stayed on because no one has wanted to change them. Instead they are trying to phase them out. Look at floppies. That intensely slow drive that still chokes my 1.4 to the point of unusuable while the floppy operation is going.

 

[Sundog]

<< it bogs my whole system down >>



Been there, done that. You can even notice it with an internal zip, but to a much lesser extent.

I finally switched to a SCSI zip and it doesn't slow anything down. Kind of nice!

 

[Compellor]

Jugernot,

I had the same problem. This might help a little...

Taken from Paul's Unofficial ABIT KT7 FAQ:

My parallel port Zip drive is really slow. Why?


<< Going into the &quot;Integrated Peripherals&quot; section in the BIOS and changing the parallel port type to &quot;ECP/EPP&quot; (just EPP should also work, but ECP/EPP is default) and then &quot;EPP version&quot; to 1.7 (default is 1.9) solves this problem. >>

 

[IsOs]

Did you enable EPP or ECP on your parallel port?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Might be poor drivers.