Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Matt Smollinger
Adam, What are the specs on your Laptop? The GZIP compression used by g4u is fairly processor intensive. You should try adding BEFORE the slurpdisk command GZIP=1 without the quotes. This will force GZIP to use the lightest compression possible, thus USUALLY increasing transfer speed. Also,

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
Adam, My experience with g4u 2.3 is only with the copydisk command, but I agree with Matt that performance can be variable. I've used g4u to copy drives on several machines and the best performance I've had, so far, with copydisk seems to be with two EIDE hard drives connected by IDE cables

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Hubert Feyrer
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Matt Smollinger wrote: What are the specs on your Laptop? The GZIP compression used by g4u is fairly processor intensive. You should try adding BEFORE the slurpdisk command GZIP=1 without the quotes. This will force GZIP to use the lightest compression possible, thus

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Matt Smollinger
Reading = Good. I assumed slurpdisk as the command. Whoops :) Matt Smollinger Application Engineer for Convergence Technology AdvancedAV Advanced Technologies Group -Original Message- From: Hubert Feyrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:10 PM To: Matt Smollinger

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: For a laptop, transferring data with COPYDISK over USB 1.1 with 4200 rpm ^^^ There's your problem. USB1.1 is known to be dog slow. - Hubert Yes. You could take the source disk out of the laptop and connect it to a