Re: [SLUG] IDE vs USB

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 17:04:17 EST


On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Steven Buehler wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Eben King wrote:
>
>> So I copied a lot of data (around 120 GB) from /dev/hdb (IDE/ATAPI) to
>> /dev/sda (IDE/ATAPI in an external USB case). This took a while. I
>> noticed that hdb seemed to transfer data only about a third to half the
>> time, while sda worked continuously (image here:
>> http://24.94.123.65:81/ide-usb.jpg). What's the deal? Is hdb really 2-3
>> times faster than sda?

> Safari could not open the page ?http://24.94.123.65:81/ide-usb.jpg? because
> the server stopped responding

You might have tried at a bad time. Try again.

eben@pc:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:AF:1F:A3
           inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:4444 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:4121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:3187092 (3.0 MiB) TX bytes:565282 (552.0 KiB)
           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

eben@pc:~$ ps ax | grep '[t]httpd'
  3459 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/thttpd -C /etc/thttpd/thttpd.conf -i /var/run/thttpd.pid

The URL works for me, but I may be special.

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