USB 2.0 Slow Read/Write Speed

[highoctanehero]

Hi-

I'v finally got my USB 2.0 card working (ish) it will now copy files from a local disk to the USB HDD at the right speed...

The problem is when I copy FROM the USB Drive to itself (another partition) or to a local disk the speed is SOOOOOO slow a 4min transfer (about 1.3GB) takes the best part of Twenty Minutes!

As I'm getting a G5 ipod soon (no firewire for reasons best known to Apple) USB 2.0 is my only means of connection!

Help!

Texas Instruments 1420 cardbus controller (cant find updated drivers for this)
ALi pcmcia USB 2.0 2port Card

[confus-ed]

I dunno how much of a problem you've really got ? - any 'self copy' to another partition or the same disk, always seems to take a looooooooong time especially with large files, as at some point in the transfer you've actually got 3 copies of that 'large file', the original, the 'new' & a temporary copy that got created in memory (& your swap file) to do the transfer. The more space is free on the target drive, the less you'll notice the effect .. or that's been my experience ayway

Daft as it sounds its probably quicker to copy the file to another disk & then to the destination partition.

[highoctanehero]

ok that solves that one!

But still, why is it so slow copying From the Usb drive to a local disc?
It is just as slow as "self copy"

[confus-ed]

But still, why is it so slow copying From the Usb drive to a local disc?

Oh you are making me confus-ed now ... you opened by saying you had this 'right' ?

..finally got my USB 2.0 card working (ish)..

[confus-ed]

Have a dabble with this maybe ? :- PassMark PerformanceTest (there's a 15 day trial) & try its disk tests & see if that spits anything out that might point us in the right direction ?

[highoctanehero]

i'm gonna take it back to where i bought it...

It wont even power my Wireless Dongle jobby

I think it is just a cheap POS!

[highoctanehero]

Yup ALL My problems are fixed now i'v gone back to the store and swapped the Ali Cardbus card for an NEC one!
I'v now filled the 4 ports of the NEC card and it runs fine!

And to all the people out there who told me USB2 wont stream video...

It does! and it does it as well as firewire!

And the card has 2more ports and was £10 cheaper!

So XP users beware... steer clear of Ali chipset cards!

[Ferrit]

Most people know that ali chipsets are a nightmare. They were around, then they died off now they are back. Apparently their new motherboards with the ULI chipset are very fast. Personally i am still smarting from their chipset issues of past so I wont be goig down their trail for a while.
And just for info I have had a number if nice issues with NEC chipsets on various hardware as well.
Great you got all working

[slgrieb]

NEC used to stand for "Nothing Else Compares" but now means "Not Even Considered". Ferrit, I have some recent, ugly experiences with NEC/Mitsubishi monitors we might share sometime.