On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:19:08PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to > find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas. > my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible. > > Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon > 3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file to > USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The writing > takes forever (since I haven't discovered how to get dd to write out the > sparse image to the CF card sparsely). Also, untill I moved the card > reader to one of the backpanel ports, the write would drag my entire > environment to a halt at the same time - even the mouse pointer gets > stuck at some point, until dd would finish. switching from front to back > panel and adding the oflag=dsync option solved the freַ¯ing of the > userspace but not the horrible writing speeds.
Perhaps it uses USB1 and not 2? Can you rmmod all *hci_ucd modules except for ehci_hcd and see what happens? Did you try cp (or cp --sparse=always if you really want to) and see if it helps? I don't know of a similar option for dd. -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
