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 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out copying >>fine at about 11MB/sec and then after a bit slows to a crawl and stays >>that way. I have formatted it with an ext3 filesystem. Here's all the >>info if anyone has an idea. > > > Considering the price of 160G external the best you should do is to stuff a > $10 USB 2.0 PCI controller into the server. Your combination of journaling > and slow transfer is somewhat... challenging. > > P.
Right on Petr ;-) That's what I've been thinking all along. My gut instinct says the USB 1.1 controller is a piece of junk. If there's an empty PCI slot then a fresh USB 2.0 controller sound quite tempting. Zac -- [email protected] mailing list
