Hi all,
I have several external USB harddrives connected to my system, namely two LaCie 500 GB boxes.
Yes, I realize that the USB interface is slower than IDE or SATA, but recently I noticed that read and writes to and from these drives where suddenly
much slower.
Something is throttling the USB subsystem, but I don't know what.
I've made two major changes to my system recently: one was upgrading the motherboard, the other was upgrading from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8.
The motherboard is an Asus Vintage PH1. The USB subsystem is:
Code:
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
I would be most grateful for any suggestions for figuring out where the bottleneck is.