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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:45:03 +0100
From:      Phil Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de>
To:        Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usb
Message-ID:  <421E4ADF.1050103@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <1109265397.810.5.camel@draco.cigb.edu.cu>
References:  <1109260854.36880.3.camel@draco.cigb.edu.cu> <421E34C6.6010305@gmx.de> <1109265397.810.5.camel@draco.cigb.edu.cu>

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On 02/24/05 18:16, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote:
>> On 02/24/05 17:00, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote:
>> 
>>>Hi 
>>>i have an usb 2.0 external harddisk this is the info 
>>>
>>>umass0: Maxtor OneTouch, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
>>>umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
>>>da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>>>da0: <Maxtor OneTouch 0201> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
>>>da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>>>da0: 117246MB (240119808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 14946C)
>>>
>>>Why the speed it's so slow? i have a 2.0 usb card :-(
>>>How can i change the transfer speed   
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> You'll need device ehci in your kernel or module ehci.ko loaded. Even 
>> then, the reported speed is not always correct.
>> To find out at what speed your device is running, try to transfer some 
>> large file with dd.
>> 
> I added this line to the configuration file of the kernel
> 
> device ehci
> 
> rebooted the system and conected the usb disk and i get the same
> transfers speed
> 1.00MB/s and in the /boot/kernel/ directory there is not ehci.ko file 
> i have to add another line to the configuration file or it's compiled
> into the kernel
> 

Chapter 8 of the handbook might be of interest to you.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html

After you have got things set up right, you should see the USB 2.0 
controller in your dmesg. Provided it is supported by freebsd.

Regards,

Phil.



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