Re: ProDOS files copied to a OS X box

[Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com>]

In article <3cdd521b$1@nntp0.pdx.net>, you@somehost.somedomain (Bart) 
wrote:

> Copying a ProDOS folder of say 30 megs from a LC (running System 7.1 with 
> a PDS Dynaport 10BT ethernet card) to a OS X  machine  ( Mac 8500 with Sonnet 
> G3/750 @450MHz 296megs/ VST ATA card  10 gig WD drive) done  from the OS X 
> side takes like FOREVER!
> A 30 meg "folder" on the LC to the OS X took about 15 minutes to copy. 

There's a few reasons...OS X likes TCP/IP, even doing files tranfers.  
7.1 doesn't do that from what I've seen.  With TCP/IP file transfers 
things do go quicker.  Also, everything is slow on that LC...the hard 
drive, the system bus, the ethernet card...the fact that it could do 
ethernet almost seemed more of a convenience than anything speed related.

I have a Quadra 650 that I use as a sometimes file server...I won't log 
onto it from OS X...I'll get on it first and do the copy from it to my 
OS X machine.  It's quicker that way.  (I also have Appleshare updated 
on it so it can connect via TCP/IP...it is running 8.1.)

Anything resembling normal Appletalk under OS X is really only there as 
an afterthought...

Greg B.