I have the issue, too. Adding the boot option "pci=routeirq" greatly improves the write performance (twice as fast).
Kubuntu Intrepid, AMD64, latest apt-get-upgrades, linux- image-2.6.27-10-generic. Hardware: Asrock mainboard with NVidia nForce 630a chipset. AMD 64-Bit- Dual-Core-CPU. I'm attaching the output of lspci -vv and lsusb -v. HTH. Feel free to ask if you need further info. -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is the registrant for gvfs. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs