-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:42:37AM +0000, Fergus wrote: > Rather than install and maintain Cygwin on several desktop machines that I > use, I travel from one to another with one copy of Cygwin on a mobile > drive.
Connected via USB? > This is formatted FAT32 as I don't need the grief NTFS provides for > file access and attribution. A 40G drive is glacier-shift slow, a 100G > drive was lightning, and the latest 500G drive is slow. If the first answer is "yes": Is it every time the same USB enclosure? Have you ruled out that the 40G and the 500G are connecting at "full speed" (i.e. 12MBit/s) instead of "high speed" (480 MBit/s)? That would qualify as glacier-shift slow. Shooting in the dark... Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJYdoWBcgs9XrR2kYRAgqeAJ9ad6oqdKMrxK4MTBa9ho7Nt1+29wCfcfoo WqIhLJ23w6JaAClV44p2vH4= =L058 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/