andrew henry wrote: > I wonder if anyone has had experience with WD MyBook drives, where older > ATA drives are faster than newer eSATA drives? 1.) The advice: get rid of WD MyBook Studio Edition 2.) they suck (I own one myself) 3.) they suck (google around... I can dig up some links if you want) 4.) You could use them over USB. I guess it is the only interface that works reliably. I had sometimes below 10 MB/s transfers with Firewire. 5.) currently I use an exchanged drive. The first one never exceeded 40 MB/s over eSATA. 6.) Just get rid of it ;-) Some links: - "WD MyBook Studi doe snot work over eSATA with linux" http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9913#c26 Regards, David Balažic PS: You get 38 MB/s write on WD 320GB over USB ? That is "rekordverdächtig" as the Germans would say. (in english "recordsuspicious", I would emphasize the "suspicious" part myself. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
