Thanks to all for your answers. Peter, thanks for your point. Look at this:
hux(p3)| dmesg| grep usb usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb5 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub5 at usb5 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb6 at uhci4: USB revision 1.0 uhub6 at usb6 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb7 at uhci5: USB revision 1.0 uhub7 at usb7 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 I will have a look now to the BIOS and try to upgrade it. I will report later. Thanks again T. 2010/1/17 Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net>: > "T. Tofus von Blisstein" <tuffst...@googlemail.com> writes: > >> I have noticed that writing to a usb drive is "slow". > > One likely culprit is your system's BIOS, that likely reports only USB > 1.something capabilities, confident that no operating system would > ever believe what it says on the matter anyway. Anecdotal evidence > suggests that OpenBSD is one rare bird that actually cares, and > respects the device's reported capabilites. Imagine what would happen > to your data if we wrote it too fast for the receiving device to > actually handle. > > Take a peek at your dmesg for anything usb related. My dear old > Thinkpad R60 apparently had five USB devices available, with only one > reported as 2.0 capable (never found out which one that was or if it > was indeed accessible): > > ~$ grep usb dmesg.thingy.mp > usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0 at usb0 > usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub1 at usb1 > usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 > uhub2 at usb2 > usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 > uhub3 at usb3 > usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 > uhub4 at usb4 > > while my slightly newer ThinkPad SL500 apparently has a few more > (still only one reported as 2.0 capable, though): > > $ dmesg | grep usb > usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 > uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb2 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb3 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb4 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 > uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb5 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 > uhub5 at usb5 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb6 at uhci4: USB revision 1.0 > uhub6 at usb6 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb7 at uhci5: USB revision 1.0 > uhub7 at usb7 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 > uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 > uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb2 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb3 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb4 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 > uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb5 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 > uhub5 at usb5 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb6 at uhci4: USB revision 1.0 > uhub6 at usb6 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb7 at uhci5: USB revision 1.0 > uhub7 at usb7 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 > uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 > uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb2 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb3 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb4 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 > uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb5 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 > uhub5 at usb5 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb6 at uhci4: USB revision 1.0 > uhub6 at usb6 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > usb7 at uhci5: USB revision 1.0 > uhub7 at usb7 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 > > but performance with such things as a USB 3G modem (Huawei > somethingorother) and a thumbdrive appears to be better on the newer > system. Likely by sheer luck I've happened on the parts that operate > on full 2.0 speed. > > I'm sure people with more wisdom on the subject can fill in on this > via the list. > > - Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
