slow USB disk writes

[NoOp]

On 12/14/2010 04:17 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WDC WD10 EARS-00Y5B1           PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

Might be worth looking at:

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=WDC+WD10EARS-00Y5B1+%2Bslow&btnG=Search>

http://lwn.net/Articles/377895/
[4K-sector drives and Linux]
http://www.linuxconfig.org/linux-wd-ears-advanced-format
[Linux WD EARS Advanced Hard Drive Format]
Others:
<http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=20795&p=85864&hilit=ears#p85864>
[Go to page 1 & read from there]
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/2926/focus=2955>
[Howto for properly partitioning new drives with 4096 byte sectors (like
Western Digital Advanced Format EARS drives)]
<http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Western-Digital-WDC-WD10EARS-00Y5B1-SATA-runs-only-1-23MB-s/m-p/88771>
<http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888>
[Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins]
etc., etc.