On Wednesday 08 of June 2005 22:18, Alec Shaner wrote: > I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to > perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my > workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server > only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out copying > fine at about 11MB/sec and then after a bit slows to a crawl and stays > that way. I have formatted it with an ext3 filesystem. Here's all the > info if anyone has an idea.
Considering the price of 160G external the best you should do is to stuff a $10 USB 2.0 PCI controller into the server. Your combination of journaling and slow transfer is somewhat... challenging. P. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
