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Re: [SLE] Speed of USB in 10.0?
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:50:32 -0500
- Message-id: <4407A0E8.6070605@xxxxxxxxxx>
John Pettigrew wrote:
> I have recently upgraded from 9.1 to 10.0 OSS, and am enjoying the new
> version. However, there's one oddity. I have two USB mass-storage devices (one
> flash-card reader and one MP3 player) and both are now running very much more
> slowly when transferring files than they used to under 9.1.
>
> Is it likely that my system is now running only at USB1 speeds rather than
> USB2? What's the best tool for checking this with? Any other ideas? It's
> currently taking an hour or more to fill a 64MB flash card so you can imagine
> what's happening with the 512MB mp3 player!
This is because someone at SUSE decided to "improve" things and mount
the drive "sync". Manually mount the drive without sync and the speed
will improve tremendously. There is a fix of limit value available.
> I have recently upgraded from 9.1 to 10.0 OSS, and am enjoying the new
> version. However, there's one oddity. I have two USB mass-storage devices (one
> flash-card reader and one MP3 player) and both are now running very much more
> slowly when transferring files than they used to under 9.1.
>
> Is it likely that my system is now running only at USB1 speeds rather than
> USB2? What's the best tool for checking this with? Any other ideas? It's
> currently taking an hour or more to fill a 64MB flash card so you can imagine
> what's happening with the 512MB mp3 player!
This is because someone at SUSE decided to "improve" things and mount
the drive "sync". Manually mount the drive without sync and the speed
will improve tremendously. There is a fix of limit value available.
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