Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-11 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Wednesday 08 of June 2005 22:18, Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-11 Thread Zac Medico
Petr Kocmid wrote: On Wednesday 08 of June 2005 22:18, Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-10 Thread Alec Shaner
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work fine at 1.2MB/s? I wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow (much slower than 1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and it would work fine on about the first 5 or so files before

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Fish
Alec Shaner wrote: Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: SCSI error : 2 0 0 0 return code = 0x7 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 47188047 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 47187984 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: lost

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Colin
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Fish
Colin wrote: Maybe you can answer this question. I have an ATA/66 hard drive (66 MBps) on an ATA/133 bus. If the bus is limited to 133 MBps and the drive cannot transfer data at more than 66 MBps, how come burst transfers (as reported by hdparm -tT /dev/hdg) are at about 1.6 GBps? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Alec Shaner
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
--- Alec Shaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support).

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2005-06-09 Thread Colin
Richard Fish wrote: Colin wrote: Maybe you can answer this question. I have an ATA/66 hard drive (66 MBps) on an ATA/133 bus. If the bus is limited to 133 MBps and the drive cannot transfer data at more than 66 MBps, how come burst transfers (as reported by hdparm -tT /dev/hdg) are at about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Richard Fish
Alec Shaner wrote: Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work fine at 1.2MB/s? I wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow (much slower than 1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and it would work fine on about the first 5 or so files before croaking. I eventually

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Alec Shaner
Mark Knecht wrote: The typical reason for low performance AND high CPU is that the controller (in this case probably the USB interface chip) isn't enabled for DMA. It looked like you have the right drivers loaded so possibly the USB chip is not a major brand name? Sorry I didn't read earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Fish
Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-05-27 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On 5/27/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Drugowitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you use the usb-storage driver or the usb block device drive (which mentions things like slow and cpu-hungry and unstable in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On 5/26/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an external USB 2.0 HD with two fat32 partitions (I have to use fat32 to make them work with windows). What troubles with me with drive is that in windows I get the expected transfer speed, but in linux it just won't get

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-05-26 Thread Richard Fish
Here's the kernel log message: May 27 01:51:06 rpc-jd224 usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 May 27 01:51:06 rpc-jd224 uba: device 6 capacity nsec 312581808 bsize 512 May 27 01:51:06 rpc-jd224 uba: device 6 capacity nsec 312581808 bsize 512 May 27 01:51:06 rpc-jd224

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-05-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/26/05, Jan Drugowitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't see much of a reason why the drive should be so slow, and neither why the kernel should use 100% cpu. Any help is appreciated, Jan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The typical reason for low performance AND