Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

[Luigi Castro Cardeles]

2010/3/9 Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it>:
> Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote:
>> 2010/3/9 Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>
>>> slow speed
>>> high speed
>>> full speed
>
>> so:
>> low-speed - uhci
>> full-speed - ohci
>> high-speed - ehci
>
> When the USB group created the 2.0 specifications it made
> a good effort to confuse "good speed" (480Mbit/s) with
> "awful speed" (12Mbit/s) devices, so to manage to sell
> all the ancient stuff by putting a USB2.0 label on them.
>
> This thread clearly demonstrates how successful they were.
> :-(
>
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but using the same external hd on windows is faster then on linux...
at that point, i am trying to understand that :D
the device is: philips case sde3275fc/97
still struggling with that.

any news i will post here.
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Luigi Castro Cardeles