Is my external drive using USB 2.0?

I just hooked up an external USB 2.0 drive. I'm copying my iPhoto library (22 GB) to it. I estimated that using USB 2.0 this should take about 6.5 minutes. Well it has been going for well over an hour and isn't half way done. I used to use this drive on my Windows machine and it is formated as MS-DOS FAT32. Is that what is slowing me down? How can I check that Leopard is using the device as 2.0 and not 1.1?
TIA!

I was using this site:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/units/datatransfer_rate/data_transferrate.dUSBtwo.en.html
I guess that is for a single file and not a bunch of small files. I still figured it would be much faster than the 3-4 hours it is going to take.
That chart is based on theoretical rates. USB really never gets near those speeds.
<http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html>
<http://lyberty.com/tech/terms/usb.html>
"Therefore, actual data transfer rate [of USB 2.0 High-speed] will be lower than 480 mbps (57.2 MB/s).
Our measurement result of data transfer rate with USB 2.0 storage device (HDD) is about 20 - 25 MB/s on average."

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