From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Jack Byer <ojbyer@usa.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extremely slow IO with a PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:38:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908021538.45180.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h51hro$p6j$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Saturday 01 August 2009 16:02:22 Jack Byer wrote:
> I have an old digital camera that stores its pictures on a 340 MB IBM
> microdrive. I am trying to transfer to pictures from the camera to my
> computer but can not find the special non-standard USB cable. The
> camera did come with a CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter, so tried
> connecting it to my laptop. I was able to install the correct modules
> and mount the drive, but accessing it is very slow (5.0 kBps read /
> 3.8 kBps write). Is this expected behavior? Is there any setup I am
> missing that would make this faster?
Get 2.6.31-rc5 kernel.
Set:
CONFIG_IDE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
in the kernel config.
Build, install, reboot.
Load ide-cs module.
Enjoy the speed increase using /dev/hda.
You may try "hdparm -c1 /dev/hda" for an extra enjoyment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-02 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-01 14:02 Extremely slow IO with a PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter Jack Byer
2009-08-01 15:52 ` Andreas Mohr
2009-08-01 18:32 ` Robert Hancock
2009-08-01 22:44 ` Jack Byer
2009-08-02 6:57 ` Robert Hancock
2009-08-02 10:58 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-02 13:24 ` Jack Byer
2009-08-02 17:04 ` Robert Hancock
2009-08-02 13:38 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2009-08-02 15:30 ` Jack Byer
2009-08-02 18:27 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-08-03 1:25 ` Jack Byer
2009-08-04 10:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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