Performance problems with external USB drive

[Sasha Tsykin]

Matthias wrote:

> Hi Sasha,
>
> thanks for your replay.
>
> Am 19.01.2006 13:30 schrieb Sasha Tsykin:
>
>> It is possible your laptop has USB full speed not USB Hi Speed. USB 
>> Full Speed is actually USB 1.1 rebranded, but is used for marketing 
>> purposes. If access to the drive is very slow, that might be the 
>> problem.
>
>
> It is a Samsung P28 XTC 1400c. According to their product site it 
> should have 4 USB 2.0-controller. However, if I interpret the output 
> of /proc/bus/usb/devices correctly then there are two slow ('Spd=12')
>  and two fast ('Spd=480') which match - as far as I know - usb 1.1 and 
> 2.0 specification.
>
> Matthias
>
they do, that is true