"nearly instant" and "BIG difference" do not convey any specific information. On linux you should do something like;
time dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/bigFile bs=1M count=100 to get a speed measurement. Not sure what to do on XP. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, John H. wrote: > err, what have I been supplying with the previous > pastes in emails? > > usbview says the device is 480mb/s, but it goes > nowhere near as fast as in windows. > > > --- "Stephen J. Gowdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi John, > > No one can really help when you supply no real > > informaion. > > > > regards, > > > > Stephen. > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, John H. wrote: > > > > > this morning i copied ~50mb from the usb 2.0 > > > thumbdrive in XP, it was nearly instant, a BIG > > speed > > > difference from linux, despite being listed as > > 480mb/s > > > > > > > > > --- "Stephen J. Gowdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Can you actually say how fast it is? How did you > > > > test it in both OSes? > > > > > > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, John H. wrote: > > > > > > > > > modinfo ub > > > > > modinfo: could not find module ub > > > > > > > > > > It's as slow as it is in my usb 1.1 laptop. > > > > However, > > > > > in WINXP, it's WAY faster. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, John H. wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My usb 2.0 devices(SD card reader and > > usb > > > > thumb > > > > > > > > drive), while being listed w/usbview as > > > > 480mb/s, > > > > > > are > > > > > > > > going around 1.1 speed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ehci-hcd is loaded, what else could be > > the > > > > > > problem? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > They are just slow? What speed are you > > > > actually > > > > > > seeing. > > > > > > > > > > > > Stephen is right. You have to be careful > > when > > > > > > talking about things like > > > > > > this. If usbview lists a device as using > > 480 > > > > Mb/s > > > > > > then that's the speed > > > > > > it's using. Now maybe the _throughput_ is > > lower > > > > > > than you expect -- but > > > > > > that's a different matter. You can also see > > the > > > > > > speed in > > > > > > /proc/bus/usb/devices (or wherever you have > > the > > > > > > usbfs filesystem mounted). > > > > > > > > > > > > A decrease in speed could be caused by ub > > device > > > > > > driver. Are your devices > > > > > > bound to usb-storage or to ub? If they are > > > > using ub > > > > > > then you have to > > > > > > disable the ub driver in the kernel > > > > configuration. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, I noticed on upgrade to fc3, > > > > /proc/bus/usb > > > > > > was > > > > > > > > no longer mounted, so I added it to > > fstab. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do I need to? Can I just have > > /sys/bus/usb, > > > > > > which is > > > > > > > > up by default? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It isn't needed for normal operations I > > > > believe, > > > > > > but it is very useful to > > > > > > > find out what is going on. I've not > > actually > > > > > > looked in /sys/bus/usb, > > > > > > > perhaps it is very similar? > > > > > > > > > > > > It doesn't matter where the usbfs filesystem > > is > > > > > > mounted; it will still > > > > > > contain the same information. However > > there's > > > > > > probably a lot of programs > > > > > > that expect to find it under /proc/bus/usb, > > so > > > > it > > > > > > might be a good idea to > > > > > > keep it there. (Unless Fedora 3 > > deliberately > > > > has > > > > > > changed things so that > > > > > > the programs now expect to find it under > > > > > > /sys/bus/usb, but I don't think > > > > > > they have. The kernel's usbfs driver still > > > > creates > > > > > > the /proc/bus/usb > > > > > > directory.) > > > > > > > > > > > > Alan Stern > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. > > Manage > > > > less. > > > > > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ > > > > |Stephen J. 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