Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-08-03 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
News: upgrade to fedora 13 and using ext4 filesystem = ~26MB/s []'s Luigi Castro Cardeles 2010/4/29 Luigi Castro Cardeles luigi.carde...@gmail.com Hi list, just to update: since kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64, the usb speed with that device has improved to 8~6,5MB/s... []'s Luigi

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-08-03 Thread JD
On 08/03/2010 07:04 PM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: News: upgrade to fedora 13 and using ext4 filesystem = ~26MB/s []'s Luigi Castro Cardeles 2010/4/29 Luigi Castro Cardeles luigi.carde...@gmail.com mailto:luigi.carde...@gmail.com Hi list, just to update: since

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-08-03 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:12 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: If you want even better performance, reiserfs4 was benchmarked to exceed ALL other  Linux filesystems, including xfs, ext2/3/4 See  http://kerneltrap.org/node/6776 How do you get that from your link? The article has nothing to do

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-08-03 Thread JD
On 08/03/2010 09:31 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:12 PM, JDjd1...@gmail.com wrote: If you want even better performance, reiserfs4 was benchmarked to exceed ALL other Linux filesystems, including xfs, ext2/3/4 See http://kerneltrap.org/node/6776 How do you get

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-04-29 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
Hi list, just to update: since kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64, the usb speed with that device has improved to 8~6,5MB/s... []'s Luigi Castro Cardeles -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 03:36 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the answer

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:28 -0300, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: 2010/3/9 Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it: Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: 2010/3/9 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: slow speed high speed full speed so: low-speed - uhci full-speed - ohci high-speed - ehci

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the answer is probably in the Windows driver code, but of course it will be binary and proprietary so it's of no use to anyone.

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the answer is probably in the Windows driver code, but of course it

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Clearly it's of _some_ use to _someone_. It just isn't of use to _you_. No, it's of no use to anyone using a non-Windows system. Isn't that what we're talking about on this list? There are those who install

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the answer is probably in the Windows driver

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:24 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, whereas the Linux version is using a generic

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-09 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
2010/3/9 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: On 03/08/2010 08:17 PM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: Hi Mikkel, cat /var/log/messages usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd That is another reason your drive is slow. You are connected at USB 1.1 speeds, instead of USB 2.0 speeds.

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: 2010/3/9 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: slow speed high speed full speed so: low-speed - uhci full-speed - ohci high-speed - ehci When the USB group created the 2.0 specifications it made a good effort to confuse good speed (480Mbit/s) with awful speed

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
Hi list and Patrick, the default max_sectors is 240. I change this to 1024 like you said but the problem continue. If i try the speed: time dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 i get that speed: 972 MB/s but if i run rsync, the upload transfer rate is very slow ( begins at 4MB/s and goes

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread NoSpaze
Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 12:16 -0300 schrieb Luigi Castro Cardeles: the default max_sectors is 240. I change this to 1024 like you said but the problem continue. time dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 i get that speed: 972 MB/s but if i run rsync, the upload transfer rate is very

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
Hi, ntfs. Nothing strange on dmesg or /var/log/messages. There is something strange: i set a line on fstab with some options (rw,async) but when i mount (mount -a), i get this: type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) I found a bug about this:

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:16 -0300, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: Hi list and Patrick, the default max_sectors is 240. I change this to 1024 like you said but the problem continue. If i try the speed: time dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 i get that speed: 972 MB/s

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
2010/3/8 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com [Please don't top-post on this list] First of all, is this device a real hard disk, i.e. a mechanically rotating magnetic surface, or is it some kind of Flash drive? Hi, sorry for top post and sorry about the poor english. It is not a flash

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 03/08/2010 11:53 AM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: 2010/3/8 Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com [Please don't top-post on this list] First of all, is this device a real hard disk, i.e. a mechanically rotating magnetic surface, or is it some kind of Flash drive? Hi, sorry

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Mikkel
On 03/08/2010 05:53 PM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: well, ntfs filesystem doesn't accept async/sync param... Tom show that to me (man mount.ntfs-3g). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571508 i will try that Patrick and post the results. Start to look for another solution :)

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:26 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: On 03/08/2010 11:53 AM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: 2010/3/8 Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com [Please don't top-post on this list] First of all, is this device a real hard disk, i.e. a mechanically rotating magnetic

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
2010/3/8 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: I know you posted it, but I must have deleted the message. Is the drive connecting at full speed, or hi speed? Mikkel --  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Mikkel
On 03/08/2010 08:17 PM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: Hi Mikkel, cat /var/log/messages usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd That is another reason your drive is slow. You are connected at USB 1.1 speeds, instead of USB 2.0 speeds. new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-08 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 03/08/2010 06:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:26 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: On 03/08/2010 11:53 AM, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: 2010/3/8 Patrick O'Callaghanpocallag...@gmail.com [Please don't top-post on this list] First of all, is this

Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-06 Thread Luigi Castro Cardeles
Hi list, I use fedora 12 on a dell inspiron 1545 laptop. (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64). i have a external usb hd and i can't make it connect like a usb 2.0 device. this device is ntfs format I check if the device is using ehci (dmesg after i plug the device) [r...@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:05 -0300, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: Hi list, I use fedora 12 on a dell inspiron 1545 laptop. (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64). i have a external usb hd and i can't make it connect like a usb 2.0 device. this device is ntfs format I check if the device is