Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-26 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:42:36AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: > I think we can close the book on this. Today, all of the USB ports on > one just stopped working altogether for anything, not even a little > mouse when plugging in gives any result. The second one is now > reliably showing in dmesg t

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-25 Thread Kevin Gordon
Good Folk: I think we can close the book on this. Today, all of the USB ports on one just stopped working altogether for anything, not even a little mouse when plugging in gives any result. The second one is now reliably showing in dmesg that it is running full-speed not high speed. So, it's h/w

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-20 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:39:43PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On an XO-1.75 using null-fsdisk, the fs-update reduced from 5:05 to > 4:36, which shows that most of the time cost is the decompression. The > same file read in without decompression [2] cost 1:26. That result was using a different

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-20 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:33:12PM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron wrote: > > For your interest, next time you need it, there's an OpenFirmware > > test feature for checking the fs-update transfer rates from USB. > > ok null-fsdisk fs-update u:\fs.zd > [

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-18 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron wrote: > I agree, it seems likely to be a hardware problem with USB. > > You said file copy from USB to the filesystem was just as slow. Is that > using OpenFirmware or Linux? I'm expecting you used Linux. > Linux > > We made some USB changes in

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-14 Thread James Cameron
I agree, it seems likely to be a hardware problem with USB. You said file copy from USB to the filesystem was just as slow. Is that using OpenFirmware or Linux? I'm expecting you used Linux. We made some USB changes in OpenFirmware, but these ought not to have had this effect, and should have n

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-14 Thread Kevin Gordon
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, John Watlington wrote: > > Sounds like a signal integrity issue is forcing the USB to run at 10 Mbps > on > those two laptops. Have you tried another USB stick ? Or different > ports on the > malfunctioning laptops ? > All three ports act on each machine act

Re: Weird behaviour

2012-02-14 Thread John Watlington
Sounds like a signal integrity issue is forcing the USB to run at 10 Mbps on those two laptops. Have you tried another USB stick ? Or different ports on the malfunctioning laptops ? There is little on the motherboard which can affect these ports --- they run from the connector to the Via com