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Hi,
at first:sorry for bad english
i have some problems with my new wl-hdd:
1: only the orange Led for Networkspeed is burning/flashing but it's connectet to a 10/100 Switch which always shows a 100 Mbit connection...but the real speed is very slow...ca 20Mbit max.
2: the auto copy function for usb-sticks is horrible...after a long time (for a 128MB USB-Stick) i have 18/36 Partitions/Folders but only one has all the data...the other folders are filled with garbage...filenames/empty Folders.
3: is it possible to mount a USB-Device directly w/o that copy-function
cu,
peter
Please Read the manual!
Your disk is the bottleneck! Most 2,5"are not fast enough to transfer the date!
NOTE: 100Mbit/sec network = 12,5Megabytes/sec.
The USB = USB 1.1 (not fast USB 2)
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Your disk is the bottleneck! Most 2,5"are not fast enough to transfer the date!
:rolleyes: i have that http://www.baber.com/drives/internal_hard_drives/laptops/toshiba_mk6021gas_specs.htm one.
NOTE: 100Mbit/sec network = 12,5Megabytes/sec.
..i know that..i only have 2 Megabyte/sec...wired connection with 100Mbit Switch...
The USB = USB 1.1 (not fast USB 2)
..and therefore i'll get 18/36 folders with garbage? i dn't not worry about the USB-Speed...there must be something wrong in my opinion...
cu,
peter
Hi,
at first:sorry for bad english
i have some problems with my new wl-hdd:
1: only the orange Led for Networkspeed is burning/flashing but it's connectet to a 10/100 Switch which always shows a 100 Mbit connection...but the real speed is very slow...ca 20Mbit max.
About the actual speed, about a year ago I bought a very nice system with two 80 GB Seagate SATA disks. Supplier installed Suse 7.x and also Serial ATA support which wasn't included in the SUSE distro at that time. When I did a hpdarm -T I got only 2Mb/s. (PIO4 I think) I found out the thing required a number hdparm and other settings to get normal r/w speed results for this config. You may be facing a similar problem with the WL-HDD.
Perhaps you can check your disk speed with hdparm -Tt or something like that and see what you get
AFAIK using hdparm isn't possible as the usb-storage driver presents every connected disk as SCSI device.
hi,
AFAIK using hdparm isn't possible as the usb-storage driver presents every connected disk as SCSI device.
sorry, i am a little bit confused about the answer...we are talking about the HD _inside_ the WL-HDD not about a external USB-Storage Device....AFAIK there is only a automatc copy function (which i don't like) for connected USB-Sticks/USB-HD/???? wich dosen't work properly in my opinion.
At the moment i think the firmware 1.1.2.2 is very buggy....and i wait for a new one...
cu,
peter
we are talking about the HD _inside_ the WL-HDD not about a external USB-Storage Device
Well, yes, my comment was only related to external usb-hdds.
You could also take a look at /proc/ide/hda/settings to find out if dma is enabled for your disk (if hdparm isn't available on the wl-hdd).
hi,
You could also take a look at /proc/ide/hda/settings to find out if dma is enabled for your disk (if hdparm isn't available on the wl-hdd).
thank you. i'll try that tonight...i hope that's possible with the WL-HDD Hardware...a Promise DMA HD Controller alone is not enough...is there a circuit diagram availiable ?
cu,
peter
PS:
the path was /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
acoustic 0 0 254 rw
address 0 0 2 rw
bios_cyl 116280 0 65535 rw
bios_head 16 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 8 0 255 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
current_speed 66 0 69 rw
failures 0 0 65535 rw
file_readahead 124 0 16384 rw
ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw
init_speed 66 0 69 rw
io_32bit 1 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
lun 0 0 7 rw
max_failures 1 0 65535 rw
max_kb_per_request 128 1 255 rw
multcount 16 0 16 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
number 0 0 3 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw
wcache 0 0 1 rw
and 'using_dma' was set to 1. Are the ohter values ok?
Seems to me it's set to ATA33. If you get 20 Mb/s I think that's OK with this setting
You may want to set init_speed to 69 (ATA100) if your HD supports this speed (would be hdparm -X69)
You may also try to increase your breada_readahead to 16 (do not set higher then multcount)
Changing the max_kb_per_request settings also may improve speed for some disks (try 15)
Antiloop
30-09-2004, 08:12
Seems to me it's set to ATA33. If you get 20 Mb/s I think that's OK with this setting
You may want to set init_speed to 69 (ATA100) if your HD supports this speed (would be hdparm -X69)
You may also try to increase your breada_readahead to 16 (do not set higher then multcount)
Changing the max_kb_per_request settings also may improve speed for some disks (try 15)
hm.. ok
is there another way than using hdparm? (this is not default on the wl-hdd, also the full busybox doesn't carry it)
Seems to me it's set to ATA33. If you get 20 Mb/s I think that's OK with this setting....
thank you! I'll try that tonight, but i fear that it won't boost the performance....i think the bottleneck is the Network/CIFS/Samba/buggy Firmware....if i try to write a testfile via the Backdoor cmdline from /dev/zero to the mounted Device the WL-HDD goes to Nirwana :-(
cu,
peter
Any results on the speed tests yet? I'm curious about the r/w speeds when using Samba or FTP. Ethernet allows for a maximum of 12 MB/s, but will the WL-HDD match this? There are 2.5" HDD capable of 12 MB/s sustained (average) throughput around and 3.5" disks, ofcourse, are way beyond that. It is interesting if the WL-HDD is capable of handling such amounts of data...
The WL-500g reaches only about 600 KB/s which is not enough to stream DIVX video for example.