Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

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Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 12:16 -0300 schrieb Luigi Castro Cardeles:

> the default max_sectors is 240. I change this to 1024 like you said
> but the problem continue.
> time dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5
> i get that speed: 972 MB/s
> but if i run rsync, the upload transfer rate is very slow ( begins at
> 4MB/s and goes below until 0.7KB/s)

Type of filesystem (ext3, ntfs)? Any noticeable messages on dmesg? Whta
does "top" tracing reports while transferring? Maybe you can also
check /var/log/messages

Let us know.
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