USB sometimes has a habit of starting off fast and then rapidly dropping the speed. I've experienced this even with normal file copies.
I'm not saying connecting the hard drive internally is guaranteed to make it better but it's something worth trying. On 11/01/2011, Harri Järvi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11.01.2011 02:22, [email protected] wrote: >> Disconnecting and reconnecting the USB cable will bring up the >> current rate to 20MB/s for a while. Any idea how I can sustain the current >> rate of 20MB/s without disconnecting and connecting the harddisk USB >> cable? > > Do you have the possibility to connect the disk internally? You could > try if that helps. > > -- > Harri > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > -- Kind Regards Reon Toerien __________________ PO Box 540 Ballito 4420 South Africa Tel: +27 (0) 83 270 2889 email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
