USB Hard Drive Activity Slows down Host
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 20:58:46 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:43 -0400, Sean wrote:
> > I think there is quite a bit of CPU overhead in transferring
> > data through a USB controller. Firewire might be more
> > efficient if it happens to work in the kernel version you
> > are using (there have been problems over the last year or so).
>
> Wow! It seems you've been enjoying GPL software for over a
> year at least! The GPL software must be very wonderful
> for you to use it so much even though you hate its license.
> I guess the GPL must be doing something very right for you
> to put aside your personal convictions and use it regardless.
>
> YAY for GPL software!!!! Working as intended.
Sigh... except for the 6 months or so when firewire disk support
was so broken in the fedora kernels that I had to run the
drives on Windows or OSX.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174537
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Les Mikesell
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