I have tried to benchmark different drive/media combination with the Disk Utility tool. And here is what I have found:
1. Internal DVD/CD drive -> same too slow error (has fail rate, but it fails most of the time) 2. External USB DVD/CD drive -> too slow error 3. External USB thumb drive -> OK 4. External USB hard drive -> OK 5. SD card in card reader -> OK -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841030 Title: Gnome Disk utility error benchmarking Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: While trying to benchmark an external USB drive with "Start Read-Only Benchmark" in benchmark dialog the following error is displayed: Error benchmarking: helper exited with exit code 1: Device /dev/sdd is too slow to benchmark This happens with any external USB storage on system. It does not matter if the drive is SD card, USB stick or HDD. I was searching for bug reports on this problem, but all I found was few forum posts. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Sep 4 16:39:25 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/palimpsest InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-08-14 (21 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/841030/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
