Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Dale wrote: > I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would > test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I > tested them One drive is MUCH slower than the others on the buffered disk > reads but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-05-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:35 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB "green" harddisk has an design flaw: > The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: > The designed maximum of head-park-cycles are reached much too fast. I have 2TB samsung drives which, by d

[gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-05-31 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I am in the process of moving my OS from drive to drive and thought I would test to see which drive is the fastest. I got some strange results when I tested them One drive is MUCH slower than the others on the buffered disk reads but I can't see any reason why that would be so.

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-01, Grant wrote: >> I don't have any experience with DD-WRT. ?I use OpenWrt, but have >> only used it in "normal" bridges and WAPs. > > Sorry to be getting even more OT, but why did you choose OpenWRT over > DD-WRT? I didn't know there was more than one choice available. http://en.wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant
My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo desktop attaches to my TV. ?I'm using a small wireless router to send the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network,

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-01, Grant wrote: >>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo >>> desktop attaches to my TV. ?I'm using a small wireless router to send >>> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. >>> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-maki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant
>>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo >>> desktop attaches to my TV.  I'm using a small wireless router to send >>> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. >>> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, > [.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant
>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo >> desktop attaches to my TV.  I'm using a small wireless router to send >> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. >> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, >> but I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant
>> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo >> desktop attaches to my TV.  I'm using a small wireless router to send >> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. >> I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, >> but I

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:19:40 -0700, Grant wrote: > >> My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo >> desktop attaches to my TV. I'm using a small wireless router to send >> the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across t

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-31, Grant wrote: > My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo > desktop attaches to my TV. I'm using a small wireless router to send > the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. > I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making devic

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:19:40 -0700, Grant wrote: > My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo > desktop attaches to my TV. I'm using a small wireless router to send > the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. > I don't like using a non-Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Robert Bridge
You mean a long ethernet cable? On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Grant wrote: > My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo > desktop attaches to my TV.  I'm using a small wireless router to send > the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. > I

[gentoo-user] {OT} "dumb" ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Grant
My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo desktop attaches to my TV. I'm using a small wireless router to send the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system across the room. I don't like using a non-Gentoo decision-making device in my network, but I also don't wan

[gentoo-user] OT: Widdle and WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1

2010-05-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, The WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB "green" harddisk has an design flaw: The heads are parked after a much too short time. Or in other words: The designed maximum of head-park-cycles are reached much too fast. WD has offered a tool called widdle, which seem to modify the timer settings of that part

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:20:36 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from >> > true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated >> > for every block you write, so even a single

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:20:36 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > You're assuming that each backup only writes once, which is far from > > true. If you mount a drive with the sync option, the FAT is updated > > for every block you write, so even a single file can cause thousands > > of writes to