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From: mjt on 8 Jul 2010 14:53
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:43:02 +0000 (UTC)
Mike Jones <luck(a)dasteem.invalid> wrote:

> Just got a Panasonic FP2 camera. Having fun so far, but the USB data
> transfer to PC is painfully slow. Its supposed to be USB-2, so I'm
> thinking I need to do something to enable the higher speed USB-2 when
> mounting it?

Jump to a CLI and execute "lsusb". A suggestion ... do you
have an SD card reader on your monitor? My monitors have a
9-in-2 card reader ports and 2 USB ports.

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From: Mike Jones on 8 Jul 2010 16:33
Responding to Emilio Lazardo:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:43:02 +0000, Mike Jones wrote:
>
>> Just got a Panasonic FP2 camera. Having fun so far, but the USB data
>> transfer to PC is painfully slow. Its supposed to be USB-2, so I'm
>> thinking I need to do something to enable the higher speed USB-2 when
>> mounting it?
>>
>> Clues required at this time. ;)
>>
>>
>> XP = alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware FU = alt.os.linux
>
> BIOS settings can sometimes limit speed to USB1, also some older
> motherboards can have some ports v1 and some v2. A simple read test
> with another device (USB stick, disk) and/or a different port would sort
> this out.
>

MOBO BIOS has USB 1&2

I'm pretty sure its the camera.

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From: Mike Jones on 8 Jul 2010 17:28
Responding to Loki Harfagr:

[...]
>> tail -f /var/log/messages
>>
>> ...does give me
>>
>> "kernel: usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd"
>
> ah yup, damn luck, that's not ehci
>
>> ...and http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2003/10/2927.ars
>>
>> ...tells me I don't have a USB-2 device, I have a USB-1 device.
>>
>> D'oh!
>>
>> Unless I've missed something?
>
> maybe not, you have a 'market named' usb2 device, that mostly means it's
> not the initial USB1.0, now maybe there are special things to do with
> your camera menu to have it use another usb type? (though on the
> Dpreview site they list it as a simple "FullSpeed USB2.0")
>
> Anyway aren't 12Mbps quite more than enough for a camera? (or is that
> not a still pic camera? or maybe just because you take too many pix and
> use it as an external HD ;-)


USB-1.1 is still s - l - o - w compared to USB-2.0's 480

With only a few(ish) *.mov files, it can take almost an hour to drag them
off the camera. Maybe I need a USB-2.0 card-reader?

It does seem a bit of a cheat though, to have a camera with all the
features this one has, and some bean counter in the company decides to
leave the data transfer circuits back in the 90s.

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From: ray on 8 Jul 2010 18:27
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:28:44 +0000, Mike Jones wrote:

> Responding to Loki Harfagr:
>
> [...]
>>> tail -f /var/log/messages
>>>
>>> ...does give me
>>>
>>> "kernel: usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd"
>>
>> ah yup, damn luck, that's not ehci
>>
>>> ...and http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2003/10/2927.ars
>>>
>>> ...tells me I don't have a USB-2 device, I have a USB-1 device.
>>>
>>> D'oh!
>>>
>>> Unless I've missed something?
>>
>> maybe not, you have a 'market named' usb2 device, that mostly means
>> it's not the initial USB1.0, now maybe there are special things to do
>> with your camera menu to have it use another usb type? (though on the
>> Dpreview site they list it as a simple "FullSpeed USB2.0")
>>
>> Anyway aren't 12Mbps quite more than enough for a camera? (or is that
>> not a still pic camera? or maybe just because you take too many pix and
>> use it as an external HD ;-)
>
>
> USB-1.1 is still s - l - o - w compared to USB-2.0's 480
>
> With only a few(ish) *.mov files, it can take almost an hour to drag
> them off the camera. Maybe I need a USB-2.0 card-reader?
>
> It does seem a bit of a cheat though, to have a camera with all the
> features this one has, and some bean counter in the company decides to
> leave the data transfer circuits back in the 90s.

That's what they make card readers for ;)
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