Just curious --
Is your USB mass storage device directly connected via a USB2.0/High
Speed (480Mb/s) port? As opposed to a USB1.1 (12Mb/s) port?
Some laptops for example have only USB1.1 ports with USB2.0 ports on the
docking station - or others have a mixture of both.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> Hi all,
>> I have a 1TB usb external disk
> Writing inode tables (mkfs command) is taking forever , like hours.
> Is that to be expected?
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