transfer speed of USB on a Dell PE2650

[Colin Percival]

Jon Falconer wrote:
> I thought that an external USB hard drive would make a good backup device.
> So I did some trial file copies. Even though the servers USB ports are
> USB2.0 and the hard drive enclosure is USB2.0 I was getting a little less
> than 1MByte per second of throughput. I do have the ehci device as well as
> uhci and ohci configured into the kernel. But looking at the boot messages
> I do not see that it finds an ehci device, only an ohci. 
> 
> Has anyone gotten a full USB2.0 throughput on Dell PowerEdge server
> hardware?

I haven't used Dell servers, but I've gotten 25MB/s to a USB-attached
hard drive on a Dell laptop, so at least some Dell hardware works. :-)

Colin Percival