Re: [gentoo-user] USB external hard drive erratic behaviour

2007-01-28 Thread b.n.
James Lockie ha scritto: Sounds like it is not caching all writes. Search for USB Linux cache 'slow write'. Thanks for your answer. I googled for the keywords you gave me but I had no significant result. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB external hard drive erratic behaviour

2007-01-27 Thread James Lockie
b.n. wrote: Hi, I have an external USB hard drive that is giving me troubles about half of the time. Symptoms are the following: - Writing a large file very often stalls for a few seconds and is overall slow (sometimes VERY slow, that is half an hour/gb) - Trying to start a vmware image on the

[gentoo-user] USB external hard drive erratic behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread b.n.
Hi, I have an external USB hard drive that is giving me troubles about half of the time. Symptoms are the following: - Writing a large file very often stalls for a few seconds and is overall slow (sometimes VERY slow, that is half an hour/gb) - Trying to start a vmware image on the external