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... > > > > actually, I should be able to get 4x that... > > No, you won't. The max I've ever seen any USB drive run at is about > 30MB/sec, even when the same drive installed internally will run at > 65MB/sec. My best 2.5" case and drive will pump about 25MB/sec.
well, I was estimating, and I am expecting about 30+MB/s given a friend gets the same with the same drive. > Ok, I've never used one of these combination devices. I'm a little > concerned, because the maximum throughput of most media readers is > about 10MB/sec...so hoping this is not a limitation of the chipset. nope, windows does the transfer in about 10/15 seconds, (I can time it exactly if you're interested) making the speed (conservatively) about 7Mbytes/sec. > > relevant dmesg: > > Looks normal... > > > sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sdd4 < sdd5 sdd6 sdd7 sdd8 sdd9 sdd10 sdd11 > > > Damn, and I thought I made a lot of volumes.... ;-> yeah, its the way it has to be unfortunately. This will eventually become my internal HD, so I need it to dual boot, plus I added a few more partitions for linux (/ /boot /usr /home) plus a couple for windows - one for play and one for work... anyway. > > $ zgrep USB /proc/config.gz | grep -v "^#" > I think you need to turn on some of the options under USB Mass Storage > support. Particularly > > CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_FREECOM=y > > but I don't think there is any harm in turning all of them on...it is > very likely that one of these will give you the best performance. ok I'll try, thanks. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Superior ability breeds superior ambition. -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list