On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Noob Centos Admin <centos.admin at gmail.com> wrote: > I got a WD 1TB My Book with eSATA/USB/Firewire400 connectivity to backup > data on a client Centos 5.1 machine. > > USB 2.0 works fine out of the box but is rather slow, Nautilus predicts > about 1+ hour to fully backup just one day's worth of data or about 100GB. > > So I was hoping Firewire would be faster, which is why we got the version > with all 3 interfaces to experiment with first. > > Following the suggestions given to another user here > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15767&forum=37 > > I updated the system's kernel to the CentoPlus > [noob at localhost ~]$ uname -s -r > Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 If that is the output, you are not running the centosplus kernel. It is supposed to be: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.centos.plus (See http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15788&forum=37 ) Akemi (nick toracat)