Hello, Friday, March 4, 2005, 9:12:57 PM, you wrote: >> AS> Furthermore, Valentine, do you know for certain that these same problems >> AS> don't occur with Windows? Could it be that they _do_ occur, but Windows >> AS> does a good job of recovering quickly? >> This can be the issue. I found out that Linux also recovers from this >> "hanging" after solid amount of time (say, 5 minutes). The most >> interesting thing is that file you ried to copy is at the very end >> received successfully. Windows can recover from this more quickly but >> since hardware is the same I think it should be possible to implement >> the same recovery procedure on Linux.
AS> There are patches under development to do that. Sounds promising. Is there any place (CVS, lists or something) where one can get more information? >> Also (it's a mere observation, >> I didn't do any measurements etc.) Windows copies files faster than >> Linux (I mean, at real USB 2.0 speed, when transfer rate in my Linux >> system is usually about 700-800 KB/sec, although /pric/bus/usb/devices >> says usb-storage is conected to USB 2.0 controller (Spd=480) not 1.1). AS> Slowness could be caused by errors during the transfers or by using the ub AS> driver instead of the usb-storage driver. If I try to use ub driver, the speed falls to about 40-50 Kb/sec :-) No, I'm using usb-storage, but I don't thin that speed should be considered as separate issue, at least for now. Anyway, my pendrive hangs prey fast, so I have no means to measure this quantity accurately. Thank you for answering. --- Valentine Sinitsyn ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
