On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:06:50 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote:
Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use
those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out.
I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about
this change.
Windows does sync by
Actually, that's a good point. All that writing to the FAT would use
those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out.
I trashed a Crucial 1GB drive in a few weeks, until I found out about
this change.
I think this problem should find its way in the official Gentoo docs (if
it
On 1/15/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads: 3640 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1820.28 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 30 MB in 3.13 seconds = 9.60 MB/sec
9.6 is pretty slow! I should be able to get at least
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 06:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/15/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads: 3640 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1820.28 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 30 MB in 3.13 seconds = 9.60
On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 06:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/15/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads: 3640 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1820.28 MB/sec
Timing
Are you mounting with the sync option, or no? Try it with, and
without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and
unmount. unmount will do the actual sync.
I've noticed that linux in generall is extremely slow with USB devices
sometimes. My external USB2 (ATA 100) drive
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 07:21 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 06:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/15/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
9.6 is pretty slow! I should be able to get at least double that...
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:46 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote:
Are you mounting with the sync option, or no? Try it with, and
without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and
unmount. unmount will do the actual sync.
hey, that sped it up heaps!
$ sudo mount -t vfat -o
On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:46 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote:
Are you mounting with the sync option, or no? Try it with, and
without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and
unmount. unmount will do the actual sync.
hey,
On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:46 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote:
Are you mounting with the sync option, or no? Try it with, and
without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and
unmount. unmount will do the actual sync.
hey,
I'm wondering if we should be reporting this to the kernel guys. I
see this on *all* linux systems with kernel 2.6, but I'm not sure
about 2.4. But, I think I'll try enabling some options that Richard
mentioned first.
Kernel guys know it very well. They recently implemented the sync option
On 1/16/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering if we should be reporting this to the kernel guys. I
see this on *all* linux systems with kernel 2.6, but I'm not sure
about 2.4. But, I think I'll try enabling some options that Richard
mentioned first.
Kernel guys know it very
Hi all,
I have a 2.5in usb HD and 2 external usb2 cases. I've been getting
pretty average performance with a 7200 rpm drive in both cases, but I
just thought this was the way it is.
However, I just did a test:
$ time
cp /usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:08:58PM +0930, Penguin Lover Iain Buchanan squawked:
I noticed I had uhci-hcd loaded (the usb 1 module?) so I unloaded it,
and my keyboard stopped working!!! So using the laptop keyboard, I
replugged the HD (now without uhci-hcd) and it still goes slow...
uhci-hcd
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 02:17 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:08:58PM +0930, Penguin Lover Iain Buchanan
squawked:
I noticed I had uhci-hcd loaded (the usb 1 module?) so I unloaded it,
and my keyboard stopped working!!! So using the laptop keyboard, I
replugged the HD
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