Some External HDD Questions

[Patrick C]

I got ~25MB/s doing file transfers on it, so 2M/s is definitely not right...

and mounting it by label is definitely the way to go (duh!). Thanks!

On 10/1/07, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
>
> After a long battle with technology, Jorge Delacruz wrote:
> > --- Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I recently bought an external HDD that hates my computer (won't work
> at
> > > all inside the computer, but plays nice from the enclosure).
> > > 1.) Is the USB spec fast enough to run any games or other applications
> > > from it?
>
> Reports from the field say that USB2 disks run at about 20-25M/s under
> real-world conditions.  This isn't as fast as IDE or SATA, but it should
> be
> fast enough for most things.
>
> > > Can anyone help me set up a UDEV rule so that this device gets a
> > > symbolic link in /dev as /dev/media-external or something?
>
> Overkill.  Put a label of some type on the device and mount by label if
> it's a
> removable device.  This is easy with ntfslabel, tune2fs, or
> reiserfstune.  If
> it's FAT, echo -n "NEW_VOLUME1" | dd of=/dev/sdX1 bs=1 seek=43 count=11 .
>
> > > KDE's media manager working some kind of hoodoo-voodoo KDE magic to
> > > automount it there (KDE can only automount things in /media).
>
> Automounters tend to cause more problems than they solve.  Put the thing
> in
> fstab and forget about it.
>
> > > basically a cut and paste job (that rule included information like
> vendor,
> > > etc., which was obvious for the iPod, but not as obvious for this hard
> > > drive. I don't know where the Gentoo people pulled it from)
>
> They probably used the /lib/udev/usb_id program to find that stuff out.
>
> > I booted with the USB drive connected, and it appears as
> /dev/sda.  Also,
> > the data transfer rate is about 2 MB/sec - much less than today's hard
> > drives.  It may work for gaming, but I would not count on it.
>
> 2M/s?  That doesn't sound right for either USB1 or USB2.
>
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