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Hi, folks. I'm hoping someone here can help me.

I have an AMD Athlon 1900 system with 512 megs of RAM. The
motherboard came with USB 1.1 ports. About a year or so ago, I bought
an 80 gig Acom USB 2.0 external HD. It's backward compatible to USB
1.1, so things have worked fine.

Tonight, I decided that I'd like to finally utilize all this speed the
drive has to offer and bought a USB 2.0 card. This new card came
with 4 USB 2.0 ports. I plugged it in, loaded the drivers, plugged in
the external HD and once again, I see all my files on the Acom HD. But
transfer speeds have not changed. It's still going at 1.1 rates. I
tested a file transfer...the 1.1 ports and 2.0 ports transfer the file
at the same speed...there is no difference.

What could be wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.:)
 
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"mark" <georgetoon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8a42f54c.0409231826.71912dfc@posting.google.com...
> Hi, folks. I'm hoping someone here can help me.
>
> I have an AMD Athlon 1900 system with 512 megs of RAM. The
> motherboard came with USB 1.1 ports. About a year or so ago, I bought
> an 80 gig Acom USB 2.0 external HD. It's backward compatible to USB
> 1.1, so things have worked fine.
>
> Tonight, I decided that I'd like to finally utilize all this speed the
> drive has to offer and bought a USB 2.0 card. This new card came
> with 4 USB 2.0 ports. I plugged it in, loaded the drivers, plugged in
> the external HD and once again, I see all my files on the Acom HD. But
> transfer speeds have not changed. It's still going at 1.1 rates. I
> tested a file transfer...the 1.1 ports and 2.0 ports transfer the file
> at the same speed...there is no difference.
>
> What could be wrong?

How are you measuring speed? What is the speed?
 
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[This followup was posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]

In article <8a42f54c.0409231826.71912dfc@posting.google.com>,
georgetoon@yahoo.com says...
> I have an AMD Athlon 1900 system with 512 megs of RAM. The
> motherboard came with USB 1.1 ports. About a year or so ago, I bought
> an 80 gig Acom USB 2.0 external HD. It's backward compatible to USB
> 1.1, so things have worked fine.
>
> Tonight, I decided that I'd like to finally utilize all this speed the
> drive has to offer and bought a USB 2.0 card. This new card came
> with 4 USB 2.0 ports. I plugged it in, loaded the drivers, plugged in
> the external HD and once again, I see all my files on the Acom HD. But
> transfer speeds have not changed. It's still going at 1.1 rates. I
> tested a file transfer...the 1.1 ports and 2.0 ports transfer the file
> at the same speed...there is no difference.

Which version of Windows, and is it fully updated with all patches and
service packs?

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"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message news:<EMZ4d.256114$wO.13287452@phobos.telenet-ops.be>...
> See both of these in help and Support. I recall it matters how you got
> SP1...
>
> INFO: Availability of USB 2.0 Support in Windows XP SP1
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329632&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
>
> Availability of the Windows XP SP1 USB 1.1 and 2.0 Update
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822603&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Folks,

Many, many thanks to all on this newsgroup. My USB 2.0 card is now
working properly.:):)

It appears that on install, I accidentally skipped over a Windows
driver file. I grabbed the disk, reinstalled drivers, rebooted and
when the windows hardware wizard came up, navigated to the drivers
folder in windows 98se, found the file and installed.:) So far, so
good!:) I can now move a 630 meg file from my HD to the External HD
in 30 seconds!:)

Again, I appreciate all the help. It was invaluable in helping me
troubleshoot my problem.:)
 
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"mark" <georgetoon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8a42f54c.0409241720.417236ea@posting.google.com...
> "CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
news:<EMZ4d.256114$wO.13287452@phobos.telenet-ops.be>...
> > See both of these in help and Support. I recall it matters how you got
> > SP1...
> >
> > INFO: Availability of USB 2.0 Support in Windows XP SP1
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329632&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
> >
> > Availability of the Windows XP SP1 USB 1.1 and 2.0 Update
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822603&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
>
> Folks,
>
> Many, many thanks to all on this newsgroup. My USB 2.0 card is now
> working properly.:):)
>
> It appears that on install, I accidentally skipped over a Windows
> driver file. I grabbed the disk, reinstalled drivers, rebooted and
> when the windows hardware wizard came up, navigated to the drivers
> folder in windows 98se, found the file and installed.:) So far, so
> good!:) I can now move a 630 meg file from my HD to the External HD
> in 30 seconds!:)

About 21MB/sec. and does prove USB 2.0.


> Again, I appreciate all the help. It was invaluable in helping me
> troubleshoot my problem.:)
 
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