[KLUG Members] help for longtime (but novice) user who finally managed to misuse rm...?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > The question I have, and I haven't seen discussed, is whether firewire
> > or USB is actually faster in practice attached to the same device from
> > the same computer.  
> I have an external drive that has both firewire and USB connectors.
> I've never actually benchmarked it, but my gut feeling is the firewire
> feels faster to me.  That may have to do with Linux drivers, chipsets,
> or who knows what.  I've never tried it on any other OS.  And I haven't
> even tried it with a recent Linux distro.  (YMMV, FWIW, ... :)

My USB drives seems faster on my new laptop than it was on my old one,
but my old laptop was kind of cranky about USB so I don't think it means
much (and this also reflects a transition from SuSe 9.2 -> 9.3).

> > Does is matter much what your controller chip-set is?  
> I don't even know if there are different controller chip-sets.

There used to be,  I have no idea if there still are.

> Where is TheBS when we need him?  ;-)

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