In the last episode (Apr 12), Yuri said: > I have FreeBSD-71 running with USB controller: > uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 21 at device 16.0 > on pci0 > > I connected to it Toshiba USB hard drive HDDR500E03X: > umass0: <Toshiba External USB HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 2> on uhub4 > da0: <Toshiba External USB HDD 1.03> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device > > When I try to copy data with 'dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/dev/null count=10000' > it only achieves has 0.65MB/s transfer speed. > > What's wrong, why is it so slow?
Increase your blocksize. dd's default is 512 bytes. Try bs=64k -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"