How to mount usb2 devices

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Sun Dec 26 05:37:06 PST 2004


On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:52:33AM +0100, Darksidex wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >dd if=/dev/da-whatever-number-it-is of=/dev/null bs=64k
> >
> bs=64k -> 15mb/s
> bs=128k -> 15mb/s
> 
> Not very fast.

At least much faster than USB1.1, but not faster than with your msdosfs
tests.
It might be a limitation from your disk, from FreeBSD or from your
USB-IDE converter.
What can the disk deliver if connected to a plain IDE controller?

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