I also have this issue when writing to a 4Gb USB stick. Transfer rates start high, then slow to a crawl or even stall completely. As they slow down, the whole computer becomes unresponsive for seconds at a time. On the same machine, the same USB stick is working fine under Windows XP; read access is also no problem.
-- since Ubuntu karmic Filetransfer to some USB Drives got realy slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500069 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs