USB 2.0 external hard drive only 1.000MB/s transfers

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 14:01, Chris Richards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought a USB 2.0 external hard drive and USB 2.0 PCI card to use for
> backups on my FreeBSD box but the drive is recognised as only being able
> to do 1.000MB/s transfers. Obviously a USB 2.0 drive should be able to
> transfer data a lot faster... I have checked my config and can't see any
> issues.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction or see an issue with my
> config? I have included a "dmesg" and "kernel config" below.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -Chris

The umass driver does not display the right number. What does 
"dd if=/dev/daXXX of=/dev/null" show ?

"ls /dev/da*"

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