Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info

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> On 17 Feb 2025, at 12:02, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
>> 
>> as cb seen, it took  4 h 15 m .
> 
> This is an excessively long time for a USB 2.0 port, but thankfully the dmesg 
> output no longer showed any disconnections.

The poor wee flash controller had to keep erasing the drive's 16MB of flash so 
many times so it could continue writing the file.