From: Mark Phillips > Gnome reported that the transfer speed was around 400 - 500 KB/sec. > I then plugged the same stick into the same port on my laptop, but > transferred files (~1.5 GB lots of little files) from Windows 7 > running in VMPlayer, and got a transfer speed of 4-5 MB/sec - 10 > times faster! Is there some magic in windows that makes USB sticks > faster? If ehci_hcd isn't loaded, then USB2 devices will be limited to USB1 speeds. If a device is mounted with "-o sync", I/O on that device will be slower (but it shouldn't have been that slow). If you're using an automounter, that automounter may mount removable media with -o sync . Finally, your USB device may have some sort of flag in unusual_devs.h that says "This device may not work reliably at high speed; force it to low"--but I think that'd be unlikely. Check the presence of ehci_hcd first. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss