USB Thumbdrive Performance with HAL

[Artem Kachitchkine]

> First let me say that HAL is working fine with a PIII 800 Mhz system running
> CentOS 5.
...
> I have done something similar with hot plugging on another system and the
> devices mount in about one to two seconds.

Does another system run the same OS?

Does the PIII 800MHz system have a USB 2.0 controller (ehci)? If it only 
has USB 1.x (ohci or uhci), the thumbdrive will operate in legacy mode 
which is slower.

-Artem