[geeks] Intel Mac Mini - Horrible USB2 drive performance

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:51:47AM -0400, geeks at litfire.com wrote:
> Has anyone got any insight into how to undo whatever idiotic thing is
> causing the problem?  I don't think that "buy firewire enclosures and move
> the drives" is a legitimate answer.  I've been told in an IRC channel that I
> frequent that the MacOS X USB drivers are to blame, but I can't find any
> reliable back-up for that notion.

Are you running them through a USB1.1 hub, perhaps?  I have no problems
with USB2.0-attached disks on any of my Macs (PPC or CoreDuo).

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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