USB Problems

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Hello,
>            I have installed Fedora 7 on my system with the kernel
> 2.6.22.5-76.fc7.I run into a problem while copying to USB drives.I get a
> very poor copy speed.It starts off fast but later slows down to 1MB/s
> and even lower making the copying process painfully slow.I have even
> updated udev to latest version.What can I do to improve the speed?

Check if the thing is mounted with the "sync" option, if it is, use

# mount /dev/blah /mountpoint -oremount,rw

to get rid of it.

Also check if you are on USB 1.1...

# lsmod | grep ehci

-Andy