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Re: [opensuse] USB2 disk speed problems
  • From: Adrian Schroeter <adrian@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:38:46 +0200
  • Message-id: <200509070738.46708.adrian@xxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 00:54, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Steven Lamb wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I connected my usb2 pen drive (FAT32) to my laptop (Toshiba A70) running
> > suse 10 beta4 and noticed that the speed of transfer to the drive was
> > about 30Kb/s. Is there a problem with the usb 2 support in suse 10 beta4?
>
> The device could be mounted with the "sync" mount option,
> which tends to slow things down much. So check if it is
> mounted with sync, and if so, mount it without sync.
> But then always remember to 'umount' the device before
> you unplug it...

not using sync could lead to data corruption.

There are known issues that USB 2 device do not using the right speed mode.

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Adrian Schroeter
SuSE AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
email: adrian@xxxxxxx


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