RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you wrote: > What happens if you cp between two hard drives, or across the > network? Same > crazy slowness? > > -- > Gary R. Van Sickle How about 'tar --diff' and '--update' - tried them? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72--> ** mailing list preference; p

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > > Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB > > > 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > >>> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB > >>> 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 > >>> which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. > >>> Running Windows XP.

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is >>> USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell >>> Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. >>> Running Windows XP. >> [snip] >> >

[OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is > > USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell > > Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. > > Running Windows XP. > [snip] > > (EIGHT USB 2.0 connectors? Wow

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is > USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell > Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. > Running Windows XP. > Ok, like Hannu said, it's a USB 2.0 connection then, as long as you don't have any USB 1.1 h

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on : > Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 > with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which > claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. Right, then we know. ;-) > I don't think caching is the diffe

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread David A. Rogers
Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. I don't think caching is the difference. I was able to unzip the .zip file right after xcopy had copied i

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you wrote: > Thanks for responding, Gary. > >> Regardless, <3.7Mb/second seems like something's wrong somewhere. >> Are you running USB2.0 hub-to-device? > > I dunno. I'm not very knowledgable about hardware esp. USB. How > would I tell? > > dar Sorry for butting in... I'd say it should've re

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread David A. Rogers
Thanks for responding, Gary. > Regardless, <3.7Mb/second seems like something's wrong somewhere. Are you > running USB2.0 hub-to-device? I dunno. I'm not very knowledgable about hardware esp. USB. How would I tell? dar On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > I tried using cp to c

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> I tried using cp to copy a zip file 106MB from my hard drive > to my flash drive (sandisk mini cruzer). After 20 minutes it > still had not completed. > > xcopy copied the file in 22 seconds. > > Why would cp be so much slower? Any ideas as to work-arounds? > Last I checked, cp was slower