Re: firewire vs USB2 for Maxtor 5000DV (was: FireWire HDD problem)

Dan Hollis <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Will newer Red Hat releases / kernel versions get better performance
> and plug/unplug behaviour? Any other user experience with this drive?

usb2 in the kernel is very new and performance is not the best. i get 
about 50% more performance from firewire on the same kernel.

this is supposed to be fixed in 2.6 kernels, but i cant get any of the 
recent 2.6 kernels to compile without tons of errors...

-Dan
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