I don't know if this would be relevant, but is the floppy formatted for Mac or MS-DOS? I was using a USB flash-RAM that was very slow, and was formatted for MS-DOS. I re-formatted it for Mac-OS and the speedup was spectacular. DTL On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 05:39 AM, Charles Broderick wrote: > I have a MacAlly floppy (Teac drive) and one day I conveniently > transferred a 1MB file--7 minutes! > > On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 12:00 AM, iBook List wrote: > >> I have a VST USB floppy drive that operates EXTREMELY slow >