On Tuesday 24 July 2007 04:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I broke a GB stick in a couple of months by writing 700MB
files to it.
For reference, when it broke, what happened? Does it die outright, or do
you get intermittent failures?
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:03:55 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote:
I broke a GB stick in a couple of months by writing 700MB
files to it.
For reference, when it broke, what happened? Does it die outright, or
do you get intermittent failures?
Read/write errors every time I tried to use it,
Which will destroy your flash device in as little as
a couple of months
(voice of experience here), and it probably the
reason the option was
removed.
Ulp! Here's my line from fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /usbauto
noauto,user,rw,exec,sync0 0
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On Monday 23 July 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
Which will destroy your flash device in as little as
a couple of months
(voice of experience here), and it probably the
reason the option was
removed.
Ulp! Here's my line from fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /usbauto
noauto,user,rw,exec,sync
Hello Alan McKinnon,
It's only a matter of time and relates to how flash devices work. After
many many writes to the same storage cell, it degrades. The good ones
are rated to about 100,000 writes per cell. The cheap and nasty ones
can be as low as 10,000 writes. You would be amazed how
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy:
On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:15, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Big thanks Dirk
It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't
know.
That's a pitty. It's a big
On Sunday 22 July 2007 15:20, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Hmm, why is this a problem? As long as you always umount before pulling
the USB stick your data will be save. You may also try to sync
manually.
In fact it is an advantage, because apparently the sync option causes
unnecessary extra writes
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:16:53 +0300, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote:
It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't
know.
That's a pitty. It's a big problem for me when I write data to flash
disk and I need to flush data frequently.
Which will destroy your flash device in
Hi
I'm trying to learn how to write udev rules for auto-naming usb sticks and usb
hard drives. I have several problems that I can't solve:
Can I precisely recognize usb stick and usb hard drive ? Note that the last is
exactly external usb hard drive, not a usb stick.
Can I disable write-cache
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Aleksey V. Kunitskiy:
Can I precisely recognize usb stick and usb hard drive ? Note that the last
is exactly external usb hard drive, not a usb stick.
Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Can I disable write-cache on vfat,ntsf-3g?
It
On Saturday 21 July 2007 17:15, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Yes. See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Big thanks Dirk
It seems vfat doesn't have a sync mount option. For ntfs-3g I don't know.
That's a pitty. It's a big problem for me when I write data to flash disk and
I need to
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