Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-26 Thread Martin McCormick
"elijah r." writes: > Say your flash disk is /dev/sdc and has 1 FAT partition where the > music is stored: > > cd ~ > dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=zenstone2g.img bs=64M > mkdir /mnt/zenstoneimg >mount -o loop -t msdos zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg > ---delete anything in /mnt/zenstoneimg/music you don't w

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:27:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 > player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations > all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which > probably has something to do with the

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Thursday 24 July 2008 15:27:01 Martin McCormick, you wrote : > I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 > player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations > all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which > probably has something to do with the f

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread elijah r.
Say your flash disk is /dev/sdc and has 1 FAT partition where the music is stored: cd ~ dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=zenstone2g.img bs=64M mkdir /mnt/zenstoneimg mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg ---delete anything in /mnt/zenstoneimg/music you don't want - cp -R /path/to/my/music/*

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread elijah r.
Correction: mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg should read: mount -o loop -t msdos zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg Material Safety Data Sheets do not play a part here. :-) You might also try -t vfat, one of them should work. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, elijah r. <[EMAIL