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iPod HELP! USB transfer rate is much slower on WinXP than in Win2K
mzenz:
I don't think there's an update, but even if it was, it's still strange. I mean, does anyone use iPod Nano + Rockbox on WinXP? is it slow too as it is to me?
Llorean:
You never responded as to whether you tried MY suggestion.
mzenz:
Ohhh... sorry! I didn't read it! actually, I haven't tried that yet, but it would be somewhat uncomfortable to use it that way, instead of just connecting it right away, as I do now. Anyways, I'll try that in a while, but, I still think there is something wrong about... well, I don't know, just something wrong... :)
Llorean:
Well, whatever's wrong honestly isn't our fault, since Rockbox has no USB mode, so you're always in one form or other of Apple's software.
It's a known issue that on Nano, under most conditions, the emergency disk mode is much much slower than the in-Apple disk mode. We don't know why, but it's a bug somewhere.
But every now and then someone reports it running full speed (such as your case on the 2k system) and we don't know why this happens either, but it's the anomaly rather than the rule.
saratoga:
WIndows 2000 enables disk write caching for USB disks by default, XP disables it by default. The reason your ipod seems so fast in 2000 is that when you copy something, it doesn't actually write it to the ipod right away, so transfers appear to be only limited by the speed of the source hard disk. You can enable it in the Device Manager, however doing so will make it easier to corrupt the file system on your Ipod if you remove it without unmatching it.
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