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 MB/sec > > > > 9.6 is pretty slow! I should be able to get at least double that...
actually, I should be able to get 4x that... > Please post the dmesg output from plugging in the drive. Note, there are 4 LUNS on this device, the first 3 are card readers ,so they show with no media (no drive or partitions), the fourth (sdd) is the ide drive. relevant dmesg: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 6 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Model: VP6230 Rev: 1.07 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Vendor: Model: VP6230 Rev: 1.07 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb sd 2:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Vendor: Model: VP6230 Rev: 1.07 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Vendor: Model: VP6230 Rev: 1.07 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdd: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) sdd: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdd: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) sdd: assuming drive cache: write through sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sdd4 < sdd5 sdd6 sdd7 sdd8 sdd9 sdd10 sdd11 > sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi disk sdd sd 2:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd1, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. NTFS volume version 3.1. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd3, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. NTFS volume version 3.1. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd7, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd8, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd9, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd10, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdd11, internal journal EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Also the > output of "zgrep USB /proc/config.gz | grep -v "^#" (or use grep & > /usr/src/linux/.config if you don't have /proc/config.gz). $ zgrep USB /proc/config.gz | grep -v "^#" CONFIG_USB_IRDA=m CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB=m CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB_SCO=y CONFIG_BT_HCIBFUSB=m CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB=m CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m CONFIG_USB_HID=m CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_PL2303=m CONFIG_USB_SISUSBVGA=m thanks for the help, Iain. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> (Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing... :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list