Re: USB issues.

Leigh wrote:
Actually did mkfs.ext3 -L DISK1 /dev/sdb1 and sda1 for the two disks.

I've always used ext3 for external USB disks because there's a pretty
good windows driver for ext3 disks at www.fs-driver.org which allows
Windows to read ext3 disks directly. I've used it for a year or so and
it's never given problems.

The original 120GB disks were also ext3 and the copy between them flew
so I'm at a loss as to why the two 160GB disks slowed to a crawl. The
two 120GB disks were identical but these 160's aren't which is why I
wondered.

At this moment I'm inclined to think that the caddy might have a fault
but I can't really prove it.

aryzhov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Have you run "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1" (and the same for another disk),
or the partitions still contain off-the-shelf Windoze compatible
universal filesystem? No idea what it's called, but it's RRREALLY slow
comparing to ext3. Downside is, you won't be able to swap the disk
between Windoze and Linux, but if you stick to Samba exports only,
it shouldn't matter.

Regards,
Andrei

Are the caddies the same brand/model? If not, try swapping the HD's.
Is there a way to lend a caddy? I agree that the caddy might be the problem. Otoh, it might also be a bad connector. Did you try to disconnect the HD-connector in the caddy and reconnect it again?

Joost
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