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So I had a very unhappy disk in my notebook. It seemed to be a loose connection, I won't burden you with the low-tech details of how I seemed to have fixed it, but I think I am OK for the moment. I had a recent backup on an external USB disk drive (yeah!), my notebook has a builtin CD-ROM drive, and Knoppix works great. Or does it? It took forever to to restore. I finally asked hdparm what speed it was getting and Knoppix was getting 0.75MB/sec to my external USB 2.0 disk. Now I am back on Ubuntu. I asked hdparm again, and this time it is getting 27 MB/sec. Any suggestions on why the difference? (And what live CD does this faster? My Knoppix is a bit old, maybe newer versions are faster. -kb
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