long idle times

[Babak Ashrafi]

What information could I send that would stimulate a response?  Is
this the right place to post my question?

Perhaps I could simply ask for the brand and modelof  an add-in USB
controller that is known to work well with 5.3-RELEASE or STABLE.  My
current controller, with OPTi 82C861 chipset, does not work well.  I
am having trouble finding an add-in card with an Intel chipset.

Any reply much appreciated.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:32:36 -0500, Babak Ashrafi
<babak.ashrafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE without any problem other than
> this: I have an external USB HD. It literary takes minutes to mount
> the ufs volume on the drive. There is more than 100G of data on that
> drive that was written about a year ago. That would have been FreeBSD
> 4.6 or 4.7, I think. After more than 24 hours of copying it back using
> tar, only 8G were copied and I gave up.
> 
> Iozone gives perfectly respectable read and write numbers for the USB
> disk, but there are long long long pauses between each read or write.
> When I test my internal disks, there are no such pauses.  I have
> similar problems with an USB CDRW and a CF reader.  In all cases it
> eventually works, just unusably slow.
> 
> Here is the relevant part of dmesg:
> usb0: <OPTi 82C861 (FireLink) USB controller> on ohci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: OPTi OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> 
> Is there some configuration I am missing?  Any advice much appreciated.
>