From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 18 17:59:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CF237B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:59:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1J1xUi85270; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:59:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1J1xTL68356; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:59:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:58:51 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20020218.175851.87218322.imp@village.org> To: randy@psg.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speeding up usb From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Randy Bush writes: : that usb umass hard drive is sloooooow. anything i can do? 200kB/s is the normal speed that you should expect on writes. There are faster CF cards available (usually listed as 4x or 8x on the box), but CF is slow to write. Also, the USB stack seems to be limited to about 400-500kB/s right now. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message