From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 08:36:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE43216A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:36:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from poros.telenet-ops.be (poros.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D5543D46 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by poros.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A9C7380085; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:36:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d5152A4C1.kabel.telenet.be [81.82.164.193]) by poros.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCD038013E; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:36:33 +0100 (MET) From: Guy Van Sanden To: Dany Nativel In-Reply-To: <404360B6.7010809@natzo.com> References: <1078149483.6895.7.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <404360B6.7010809@natzo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1078158992.25271.2.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:36:33 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB 2.0 harddisk performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:36:34 -0000 Thanks Dany Is firewire fully supported on FreeBSD? The disk does have a firewire link, I can buy an addon card for about 30 ¤, but I wanna make sure that it will work better. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:11, Dany Nativel wrote: > Have you enabled EHCI support ? > > Even with EHCI enabled the speed won't be that great. According to the > man page, the code is still under development and therefore pretty buggy. > > Maybe you'll have better luck with Firewire. > > Dany > > Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > >I have a USB 2.0 harddisk (internally ATA-100) connected to a USB 2.0 > >port. > > > >Unfortunatly, data transfers are limited to 1 MB/second (reported by > >FreeBSD on detection, and confirmed using Bonnie). > > > >Any ideas? > > > >I'm running 5.2.1 > > > > > > -- ______________________________________________________________________ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 ______________________________________________________________________