USB 2.0 harddisk performance

Dany Nativel dany_list at natzo.com
Mon Mar 1 08:11:41 PST 2004


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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