On 5/26/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an external USB 2.0 HD with two fat32 partitions (I have to > > use fat32 to make them work with windows). What troubles with me with > > drive is that in windows I get the expected transfer speed, but in > > linux it just won't get faster than 1Mb/s. > > Do you use the usb-storage driver or the usb block device drive (which > mentions things like "slow" and "cpu-hungry" and "unstable" in the > kernel config option's help page)? Could you C&P the relevant parts > from the kernel logs when the drivers are loaded (USB host adapter and > device)?
Hmm, I've configured the USB bit of the kernel a long time ago and have since always used 'make oldconfig'. I didn't know that there were 2 different device drivers available. I'll have a look as soon as I'll be back home. Thanks for the hint, Jan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list