USB Disk Speed

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:26:49PM -0400, Brendan wrote:
> No need to fear, KNOPPIX still comes as a CD version...One just came out 6 
> days ago...
> 
> ftp://ftp.knoppix.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso

I booted my freshly burned Knoppix disk, and it is faster.  If I do
two hdparm tests in immediate succession, the second now clocks in at
1 MB/second.  33% improvement!

But still way short of the 27 MB/s when I boot back to Ubuntu.

Does Knoppix have USB 2.0?  Is there some magic boot parameter needed
to turn it on?  A detail: I did have the disk present as Knoppix was
booting.


-kb