USB 2.0 vs FireWire?

[Chris Ruprecht]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 01:06, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
>
>   
> Maybe it's related to your chipset - I think there may be some
> variations.  I gave up on firewire on fedora when disk access
> broke completely in mid-FC4 and didn't work till mid-FC5.  I'm
> using a WD external case and adaptec controller with the
> CentOSplus kernel and get about the same speed you listed for
> USB 2.0 - somewhere in the 20+MB/sec range in the hdparm test.
> This box doesn't have USB 2.0 for a direct comparison but I
> saw about the same speed but more CPU consumption when running
> it on USB from a laptop (that was probably under FC3, though).
>
>   


It might be the chipset of the F/W card, not sure. I have another, older 
card, F/W only, I will try that in a bit.

Thanks,
Chris