greetings, intelligent questions and/or recommendations are greatly appreciated!
thanks, stan problem: - my 120G external usb-attached disks are very! slow for large (20G) file work. - when i try to write directly to my usb disks (using any of the linux tools (tar/dump) or the nt tools (ntbackup)) the disks "hang". the orange write light stays on and the system starts responding very(!) slowly. eventually the application generates an error and fails. (i do not remember which error now. i haven't done that in a while.) - it works better when i write the application output to a local disk, copy (not move!) the file, then delete the local copy. when i do this the system stops responding for minutes at a time and the orange write light comes on. when the system starts responding again the green 'ready' light comes back on. it iterates through this until the entire file is copied. i believe that it has run to completion for every file that i've done this with. configuration and background: + rh9 + a pair of 120G disks sitting inside of individual enclosures that provide usb interfaces. [i use these for backups (no, i do not believe in tapes).] + each enclosure is plugged into a power external usb hub which is then plugged into the linux box. + unbranded little external usb hub. + working with these disks in 'normal' mode everything is okay. i can create and move files and directories from the gui or from the command line. copying/cutting/pasting of many small files/directories works okay. + i believe that these enclosures would connect at usb2 speeds but my rh9 box only has a 1.whatever interface. + file sizes are never larger than 20G. + when i got the drives connected and working i mkfs'ed them. they are both ext2. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
