USB 2.0 harddisk performance

Guy Van Sanden n.b at myrealbox.com
Mon Mar 1 08:36:34 PST 2004


Thanks Dany

Is firewire fully supported on FreeBSD?

The disk does have a firewire link, I can buy an addon card for about 30
€, but I wanna make sure that it will work better.



On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:11, Dany Nativel wrote:
> Have you enabled EHCI support ?
> 
> Even with EHCI enabled the speed won't be that great. According to the 
> man page, the code is still under development and therefore pretty buggy.
> 
> Maybe you'll have better luck with Firewire.
> 
> Dany
> 
> Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> 
> >I have a USB 2.0 harddisk (internally ATA-100) connected to a USB 2.0
> >port.
> >
> >Unfortunatly, data transfers are limited to 1 MB/second (reported by
> >FreeBSD on detection, and confirmed using Bonnie).
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >I'm running 5.2.1
> >
> >  
> >
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