Quote Originally Posted by heiby
I found that whether I tried creating the image file in-place on my USB memory stick, or tried to copy the 32M file onto it from my HD, it sat there interminably trying to sync all of the information out.
What you describe suggests that the problem is not with the script that creates the image but rather with the USB device. Perhaps its using USB1.1, although even at 12 Mbps, copying should only take about 30 seconds. Can someone stick in a USB stick and try a simple write test? For example:
Code:
mount /mnt/uba1
cd /mnt/uba1/
file.test () { dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.usb.test bs=1k count=$1 ; sync; }
sync
time -p file.test 10
sync
time -p file.test 100
sync
time -p file.test 1000
What were the results?

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- Robert
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