On 2008-Sep-14 02:50:25 +0200, Olivier SMEDTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2008/9/14 Hans Petter Selasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> What does:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=65535
>>
>> Output for your memory stick?

I thought you needed to do IO in multiples of the blocksize - which
65535 is unlikely to be.

>Not related, I did not notice before, the device seems to read the
>first sectors slower :

This may be related to the magic wear-levelling algorithm in your
stick - the first few sectors are more critical and presumably have
more error detection and correction overheads.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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