installboot: broken MBR

Hello, I have linux and openbsd installed on a single drive. Linuxy fdisk shows Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 24017 1929165215 Extended Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 24018 304015

writing to usb very slow

Hello, I have noticed that writing to a usb drive is "slow". What does "slow" mean? It means that compared to other OS's. Which OS's? Yes, it hurts: the penguin. Information: The external drive has been formated as ext2, so that I can mount it with obsd and the penguin Copying some 72G takes

Re: writing to usb very slow

Hello Donald, well, I cannot tell the same here. I still think it must be related to that usb 1.0 being reported in dmesg usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr

Re: writing to usb very slow

Hello, this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took 40 minutes to copy 285M. This one was Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lu

Re: writing to usb very slow

which filesystem are you using on that device? T. 2010/1/19 FRLinux : > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM, T. Tofus von Blisstein > wrote: >> this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took >> 40 minutes to copy 285M. > > Mmmh, clearly your ke

Re: writing to usb very slow

going on (at least within my limits of understanding!) Thanks T. 2010/1/19 David Vasek : > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took >> 40 minutes to copy 285M. >>

Re: writing to usb very slow

some 18M or so every time I do a normal backup Thanks, T. 2010/1/19 David Vasek : > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took >> 40 minutes to copy 285M. >> &g

Re: writing to usb very slow

sorry about that, but I also have noticed this problem with external usb drives I don't have any kind of test to report yet, though 2010/1/19 Jacob Meuser : > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:54:16PM +0100, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: > >> The point is that I have many huge USB dri

Re: writing to usb very slow

# mount -o async /dev/sd1a /mnt # date && cp -r TEST/ /mnt && umount /mnt && date Wed Jan 20 00:17:54 CET 2010 Wed Jan 20 00:33:35 CET 2010 2010/1/20 David Vasek : > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: > >> Hello David, >> >> thanks.