Removable USB device very slow

[Olivier]

	According to martin pitt, the problem is already solved in pmount, we
just have to wait the package upgrade. As I said it's only the sync
option, with async the transfers of 700 Mo is done in 20 seconds (was 18
mins with sync).
 

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 18:06 +0200, Johan wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:31:36 +0000 (GMT)
> Paul Sladen <sounder at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Olivier wrote:
> > > 	When my USB disk is plugged it is automatically mounted by HAL. But the
> > > disk is mount with the sync option :
> > 
> > I don't think removing the 'sync' option will speed it up much---USB is very
> > slow (<1MB/second).
> > 
> > Is there any chance it is a higher-speed USB 2.0 device and you are used to
> > using it on machines with USB 2?  Could it be that Ubuntu is only loading
> > USB1 drivers if it seems to be appreciably slower?
> > 
> > 	-Paul
> > -- 
> ************
> It seems that ubuntu still needs to solve the problem with usb drives. Same in mdk 10.0 and suse 9.1.     
> 
> Mandrake 10.1 and suse 9.2 .. I can transfer a 695mb iso from hda to sda in between 70 - 90 seconds.
> 
> In ubunto the same system it hangs. 
> 
> -- 
> Johan Sch
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