bandwidth strange fn of HD
here's one I can't figure out:
First, I'm running RH 7.2 with pure-ftp serving 2 drives, one an IBM 60GB and another Maxtor 60GB (both about a year old). Storing data on the IBM drive (transferring from (any other[NT4, win2k, linux]) box to linux ftp server) works fine at ~6000kb/s. however storing data on the Maxtor drive starts ~6000kb/s and linearly slows down to about 500kb/s over ~3 minutes. I know the Maxtor drive works better than this since files copied from the IBM drive to the Maxtor drive at the linux prompt transfer at ~6000kb/s. Swapping the cables between the two drives doesn't change anything. Downloading from both drives is flawless. Also, this network is on a hub and the collision light is pretty active when u/l to both drives. When the u/l slows down, the whole linux machine is unresponsive over the network from the box initiating the u/l. the IBM drive is ext3 and the maxtor is ext2. Any ideas on why the maxtor drive (only) exhibits this behavior? I'm wondering if something got corrupted somewhere so reformatting all the drives and starting over would fix it but that's pretty time intenive. if not that then prob just toss the Maxtor...???
thx if any suggestions, - bp
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