USB 2.0 vs FireWire?
Chris Ruprecht
chris at ruprecht.org
Mon Nov 13 00:27:56 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 01:06, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
>
>
> Maybe it's related to your chipset - I think there may be some
> variations. I gave up on firewire on fedora when disk access
> broke completely in mid-FC4 and didn't work till mid-FC5. I'm
> using a WD external case and adaptec controller with the
> CentOSplus kernel and get about the same speed you listed for
> USB 2.0 - somewhere in the 20+MB/sec range in the hdparm test.
> This box doesn't have USB 2.0 for a direct comparison but I
> saw about the same speed but more CPU consumption when running
> it on USB from a laptop (that was probably under FC3, though).
>
>
It might be the chipset of the F/W card, not sure. I have another, older
card, F/W only, I will try that in a bit.
Thanks,
Chris
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