On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:46 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Are you mounting with the "sync" option, or no? Try it with, and > > without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and > > unmount. unmount will do the actual sync. > > hey, that sped it up heaps! > > $ sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=iain,gid=users,async /dev/sdd6 /mnt/tmp/ > $ time { cp /usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz > /mnt/tmp/; sudo umount /mnt/tmp/; } > > real 0m11.134s > > thats a huge increase (11s instead of 81s!), so how come hdparm still > reports 9MB/s? > > > I've noticed that linux in generall is extremely slow with USB devices > > sometimes. My external USB2 (ATA 100) drive gets 27M/sec on my > > machine. And with a relatively new driver, you should see speeds > > about like that. > > Is that calculating the times yourself, or with hdparm?
Yes, calculating myself. And I don't know why hdparm would report that other time. > > thanks, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. > -- Groucho Marx > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list