On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:16:09AM -0700, tim Howe wrote: > On a Supermicro H8SSL board I started using, moving non-trivial amounts > of data to a USB flash drive hangs. If the USB has an OpenBSD fs, it > just hangs the cp operation (or whatever) and makes other access > to the drive hang. With a msdos fs it can completely hang the system > to the point that I can't even log into a different TTY. Just copying > a small file or doing an initial ls after mounting seems to return OK > (at least at first) but moving a file larger than a couple of Meg hangs. > > I tried a 4.9 install and it seems to work fine. So I upgraded that to > a 5.0 install and that seems to work fine too (although, it just occurs > to me that those were i386 and the 5.1 that is hanging is amd64, should > it matter?).
Yes, it might matter. Doing the same tests with a consistant arch would be very useful. .... Ken