please see the actual Thread Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk
there might be some hints for you ... and have a look whether your system and the enclosure support USB 1.x or 2.0 Martin ---- timothy johnson wrote: >I just bought a 120GB harddrive and an external case for it. Just >wondering if its normal for it no to be fuild when writing to it. I am >backing up some data, and notice in gkrellm that its datatransfer is >spikey. > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list