I have a USB2/Firewire external drive with a removable tray I use for backup. When the disk is connected in the following sequence: 1. connect USB cable 2. insert disk on removable tray into enclosure 3. turn on power switch to drive 4. turn on key to power disk The backup runs at USB1 speeds. If I change the sequence to: 1. insert disk on removable tray into enclosure 2. turn on power switch to drive 3. turn on key to power disk 4. connect USB cable The backup runs at USB2 speeds. The difference is backup times is quite dramatic. A few hours for USB2 and most of the day at USB1. The disk is properly mounted at the start and unmounted at the end of the backup.
The portion of the dmesg added when the disk is attached is: umass0 at uhub3 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: JNC Incorporated USB2.0 Storage Devic?, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <HDS72251, 2VLAT20, 0 0> SCSI0 0/direct fixed sd0: 117800MB, 117800 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 241254720 sec total Disconnecting the disk adds these line to dmesg: umass0: at uhub3 port 5 (addr 2) disconnected sd0 detached scsibus2 detached umass0 detached Why am I getting this behavior? Other than using method #2 to connect the disk to my system, is there anything I can do always get USB2 speeds? Joe ---Complete dmesg output--- OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue May 1 15:19:26 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 2.01 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 267939840 (261660K) avail mem = 236802048 (231252K) using 3301 buffers containing 13520896 bytes (13204K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/03/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfdad0, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0630 (22 entries) bios0: MSI MS-6712 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf7fc0/208 (11 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT8235 ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf000 acpi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8377 PCI" rev 0x80 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 AGP" rev 0xa2 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ahc0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-29160 U160" rev 0x02: irq 10 scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets st0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <ECRIX, VXA-1, 2A6A> SCSI2 1/sequential removable dc0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "ADMtek AN983" rev 0x11: irq 12, address 00:04:5a:72:31:3d ukphy0 at dc0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 1: OUI 0x000749, model 0x0001 uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 10 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x80: irq 5 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x82: irq 12 usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered viapm0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8235 ISA" rev 0x00 iic0 at viapm0 iic0: addr 0x2f 04=00 06=03 07=00 0c=00 0d=07 0e=84 0f=00 10=c0 11=11 12=00 13=60 14=14 15=62 16=01 17=06 pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST3160812A> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <Compaq, DVD-ROM DVD-114, 1.14> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <WDC WD1200BB-16CAA1> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 114473MB, 234441648 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5 "VIA VT8233 AC97" rev 0x50: irq 5 ac97: codec id 0x414c4760 (Avance Logic ALC655 rev 0) audio0 at auvia0 vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x74: irq 11, address 00:0c:76:5c:ba:08 ukphy1 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 8: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: density unknown biomask ff6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 umass0 at uhub3 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: JNC Incorporated USB2.0 Storage Devic?, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <HDS72251, 2VLAT20, 0 0> SCSI0 0/direct fixed sd0: 117800MB, 117800 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 241254720 sec total umass0: at uhub3 port 5 (addr 2) disconnected sd0 detached scsibus2 detached umass0 detached