Slooooow USB key speeds

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a Kingston 8G DataTraveler USB stick.  When I plug it into one of
> the USB 2.0 ports on my Fedora 10 PC (x86_64), the kernel detects it,
> and after some magic, Gnome mounts it on my desktop - everything is
> honkey dorey.
> 
> When I use Nautilus to copy files to it (say a 1 GB movie file), the
> transfer speed begins in the 20 MBps range, but quickly drops to 1.5
> MBps or less.  Obviously, this increases transfer time exceptionally,
> essentially rendering the USB stick useless.
> 
> I've tried reformatting (as vfat) the stick, deleting and recreating the
> partition on it, all several times and to no avail.
> 
> The same stick works just fine on my HP Compaq nx7400 Fedora 10 laptop.
> I now assume something is either amiss with my PC, or there's a bug
> somewhere in Fedora 10 killing USB performance.  I've tried searching
> for both, but I've come up up with nada.
> 
> My PC has an Asus P5Q-E motherboard, an Intel E8400, and 4 GB of RAM. Is
> there something about this combination of hardware (don't forget the USB
> stick) when used in conjunction with the x86_64 version of Fedora 10,
> leads to shitty USB performance?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ranbir
You may want to take a look at /var/log/messages after plugging the
USB key in and see what speed the USB key is talking at. You may
want to look at /proc/bus/usb/devices to check the same thing.

Mikkel
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