Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
070820 Mick wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: I copied a series of dirs to my USB stick as each one was done, they took successively longer to finish, tho' they were all roughly the same size. It must be something to do with the way the data is laid out on the stick. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 20 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 070820 Mick wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: I copied a series of dirs to my USB stick as each one was done, they took successively longer to finish, tho' they were all roughly the same size. It must be something to do

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070818 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? -- Neil Bothwick Miracle worker, Doctor! I'm a dammit, not a jim.. no, scratch that... signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? I don't think so. Because there are no moving parts, the latency

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070819 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? Because there are no moving parts,

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance reasons a write-cache is used -

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2007-08-17 Thread _JusSx_
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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Philip Webb wrote: 070816 Florian Philipp wrote: USB-sticks appear as SCSI drives. That means their block device is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. check if usb mass storage is enabled in your kernel. Yes, that's it presumably : So I'll need to compile a new kernel, ie 2.6.20 - 2.6.22 ,

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-17 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance reasons a write-cache is used - changes to the filesystem aren't effected immediately. Issuing a

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/16/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 but when I try to mount it ( /z/usb is an unused dir in my filesystem): mount

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 21:03:18 schrieb Philip Webb: I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 but when I try to mount it ( /z/usb is an unused dir in my filesystem): mount

[gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 but when I try to mount it ( /z/usb is an unused dir in my filesystem): mount /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 /z/usb it tells me (similarly for the other

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/16/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 but when I try to mount it ( /z/usb is an unused dir in my

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Florian Philipp wrote: USB-sticks appear as SCSI drives. That means their block device is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. Usually you want to mount their first (and only) partition, i.e. /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1. If there is no such block device, check if usb mass storage is enabled in your

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 21:33:26 schrieb Philip Webb: 070816 Florian Philipp wrote: USB-sticks appear as SCSI drives. That means their block device is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. Usually you want to mount their first (and only) partition, i.e. /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1. If there is no such