Well I am now officially confused. I have found a way that means I can get by with the system as it is, not ideal of course as I would prfer to understand why and what the prolem is rather than just get around it.
I have now found that if I initiate a transfer using a command such as cp on the gentoo machine to copy a file to the XP machine on a directory that is mounted on the gentoo then the speeds increase vastly. root transfer from genstu --> xp 366Mb 66 secs [which equates to approx 46Mbps] XP --> XP 366Mb 43secs [which equates to approx 71Mbps] eg. For clarity Gentoo fs /home/movie/testfile.avi --->[366Mb file] /mnt/NEWSTU/transferdump ---->[XP directory mounted Samba on genstu] cp /home/movie/testfile.avi /mnt/NEWSTU/transferdump ----> [66 secs] Using drag and drop from XP machine copying same file from genstu to XP -->[Time in sxcess of 12 mins at least] I suspect that I am missed something fundamental about the way files transfer between file systems using samba or even the way in which that same trnsfer is initiated. Also in answer to the tulip-diag suggestion I have compiled and run the program which produced the following output. I am afraid I cannot interpret this though if someone could point out if there is anything strange about it I would appreciate it. thanks again stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] tulip # ./tulip-diag tulip-diag.c:v2.18 11/12/2003 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xb000. Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex. Transmit started, Receive started. The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'. The Tx process state is 'Idle'. The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward. Use '-a' or '-aa' to show device registers, '-e' to show EEPROM contents, -ee for parsed contents, or '-m' or '-mm' to show MII management registers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tulip # tulip-diag -a tulip-diag.c:v2.18 11/12/2003 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xb000. Macronix 98715 PMAC chip registers at 0xb000: 0x00: fff88000 ffffffff ffffffff 2ddbe000 2ddbe800 ec000102 01a80200 e7fe0000 0x40: fffe0000 00fecf08 fffff2ff fffe0000 45e1d0cc ffff0000 ffffffff fff00000 Extended registers: 0x80: 0f340000 0f340000 0f340000 0f340000 0f340000 0f340000 fc0fffe0 fc0fffe0 0xa0: c001527f c001527f 00001140 00001140 a24cff28 a24cff28 e000e000 e000e000 0xc0: a04cf302 a04cf302 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0xe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex. Transmit stopped, Receive stopped. The Rx process state is 'Stopped'. The Tx process state is 'Stopped'. The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tulip # tulip-diag -e tulip-diag.c:v2.18 11/12/2003 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xb000. Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex. Transmit stopped, Receive stopped. The Rx process state is 'Stopped'. The Tx process state is 'Stopped'. The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward. EEPROM 64 words, 6 address bits. PCI Subsystem IDs, vendor 13d1, device ab01. CardBus Information Structure at offset 00000282. Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:E0:4C:A2:28:FF. EEPROM transceiver/media description table. Leaf node at offset 224, default media type 0000 (10baseT). 0 transceiver description blocks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tulip # tulip-diag -m tulip-diag.c:v2.18 11/12/2003 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0xb000. Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex. Transmit stopped, Receive stopped. The Rx process state is 'Stopped'. The Tx process state is 'Stopped'. The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward. No MII transceivers found! On 5/29/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > lsmod returns "tulip" > > > > The switch is :- > > > > Supports 4 10/100 Auto MDI-X > > Ethernet switch ports and 1 Line > > port > > > > > > and using "modinfo tulip" I get > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart # modinfo tulip > > author: The Linux Kernel Team > > description: Digital 21*4* Tulip ethernet driver > > license: GPL > > version: 1.1.13 > > parmtype: tulip_debug:int > > parmtype: max_interrupt_work:int > > parmtype: rx_copybreak:int > > parmtype: csr0:int > > parmtype: options:array of int > > parmtype: full_duplex:array of int > > vermagic: 2.6.11.5 486 gcc-3.3 > > depends: > > alias: pci:v00001011d00000009sv*sd*bc*sc*i* > > 30 more lines of similar to above alias [1 line easier on eyes] > > > > The NIC in genstu is exactly the same model as the NIC in one of the > > XP machines and data transfer between the two XP machines via the > > switch is way in excess of 10Mb [dont have anything prog on XP to > > quantify this, except the analogue graph in task manager] > > You might want to look at the tulip-diag utility here: > http://www.scyld.com/ethercard_diag.html > > -- > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
