PS2 Very slow mounting and transfering using NBD (uOPL)

[Megoosa]

I tried a APA-JAIL setup and used uOPL. Game playing works fine. However, how am I supposed to transfer games to the exFAT partition without pulling out the HDD each time?

If I search, the build-in NBD-server is the recommended way to do it. I tried it with a Linux PC and it's incredibly slow. Mounting takes a minute and transfer speeds less then 600KB/s.

I installed nbd-client and loaded the nbd module:

apt get install nbd-client
modprobe nbd

Then I started the NBD server in uOPL and connected to it using nbd-client:

nbd-client 192.168.117.94 /dev/nbd0

With "blkid" I can see the exFAT partition is on /dev/nbd0p2. So I mount it:

mount /dev/nbd0p2 /media/nbd0

Here starts the slowness. It takes a minute to mount. Then I can use Midnight Commander to transfer a game to it, which only goes with 550KB/s.

First time I tried mounting using the GUI file manager (Thunar), that was so slow Thunar just crashed. The command line tools have more patience, but it's not supposed to be this slow?

What can be wrong? Should I mount it using specific parameters?

 

[Berion]

You did everything properly. It is slow because (if I'm not mistaken) works on IOP side.

There is project called EasyHDD. It is custom case for Network Adaptor which exposing drive externally, so user not need to unscrew and disconnecting fragile NA port from console. To be printable.

 

[Megoosa]

Hmmm... then it's like running it on a 486 or so

The EasyHDD case is unfortunately only for 2,5" disks (and quite expensive if you don't have equipment to print it yourself). I still use 3,5" P-ATA drives, 160-250GB is still more then enough space.