RE: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

total commander is a clone of norton commander. something like midnight commander on linux.

i thought the same: choice between usb 1.x and 2.0 is done far lower level that cygwin can really influence it. but the difference of speed made me consipicious.

example, copying a single file (.tar.gz) of size ~70MB:
with total commander it takes 20 sec.
with cygwin it takes 4 minutes (!), which is plain too long to include it in my script.

i know through its abstracton layer cygwin must be slower. but regarding that slowliness could it be another reason?

thanks again!