[NCSA-discuss] windows/explore/samba - why so slow?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jeff The Riffer wrote:

> server. You'll want to check the SMART data in the hard drive and see if 
> there's a lot of bad sector relocates...

have had smartd running for a couple of years. Haven't had 
any errors. Why would the ethernet light be blinking like 
crazy for minutes trying to list the directory, if the disk 
was retrying, then when I did the copy of the file, it comes 
over in seconds?

Joe


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