[plug] usb2 woody

[Shayne O'Neill]

480mb thruput is pretty snappy.

better than a network h-drive on a 100mg net theoretically.



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On Fri, 14 May 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> | On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 16:17, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
> (Shayne using his time machine again?  Seems like Murdoch is now a
> whole day ahead of the rest of Perth...)
>
> | > I'm using a maxtor 300gig 'onetouch' beast via usb2
> | > I've noticed its quite slow.
> |
> | It'll be slow on USB2 as well - just not /as/ slow.
>
> I was under the impression that USB2 approach a significant fraction
> of the you'd get with straight IDE, at a significant CPU penalty?  At
> the very least it should be an order of magnitude faster with USB2
> than USB1.
>
> | Load EHCI (USB 2.0/"High Speed") controller support? (this is likely to
> | involve a kernel upgrade to a more recent 2.4).
> |
> | On my 2.6.3 system the module is 'ehci-hcd.ko' but I suspect its named
> | differently under 2.4.
>
> It's called ehci-hcd under 2.4 too :-) If you have a sufficiently
> recent hotplug installed the module will be loaded automaticallly...
> dunno if this is the case with woody though.
>
> Cameron.
>
>
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