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Maximum best the ISA connected IDE controller could do would be 16MB/s. Halving that to account for both drives on the same bus, and overhead, and you are probably looking at 5MB/s at best. So a minimum of 9 hours for 160 gigs.

IIRC we don't achieve anything like that. Memory-to-disk bandwidth is 4MB/s, half that is 2MB/s, which is only 2.5 times faster than doing it over Ethernet. 160GB would be 80,000 seconds or about a day.

You can do a lot better with a USB-to-IDE doobrie and doing the copy via a Linux PC. Those probably hit 20MB/s unless your drives are really old.

Peter