Monster IDE Drives

[Michael Hipp]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>>By "directory fiddling", you mean disk seek time, right?
> 
> 
> Probably. But it is communication with the disk of other than actual file
> content. I would imagine that the disk would also seek when writing data. So
> it is more than that. Could in fact only be a firewire driver thing on Linux
> and not the disk at all.

"Directory fiddling" can be really slow. Last night I was moving some 
stuff via a USB 1.1 pocket drive. I did 'mkdir foo'. The command prompt 
didn't return for a *full minute*. Thought I was gonna have a coronary. 
It's a VFAT volume which may explain some of it.

Michael