On Sunday 13 May 2007, Carlos F Lange wrote: > On Sun May 13 2007 05:56, James Knott wrote: > > > Well ... the USB pendrive is 2.0 fo sure (written on it). On the > > > other hand (I do not know much about hardware) I have look in YAST > > > and I have 4 USB Contollers - 3 are 1.0 and 1 is 2.0. As a test, I > > > tryed to write on pendrive using all of them but the transfere is > > > steel ~50 KB/s. Is there a way to improve it? > > > > There was an issue with writing to flash drives, when automounted by > > the desktop. In that situation, "sync" (IIRC) was enabled, which > > cause the poor performance. This problem didn't occur, if the drives > > were mounted with fstab and nosync option included. > > You can influence how it is mounted by going to Konqueror and on the > left tab choosing System, then Storage Media and right-clicking on the > device icon and selecting Properties. There should be a tab called > "Mounting" that allows you to uncheck synchronous mounting. > > Carlos FL
But when doing so, make sure you never yank it out of the usb port without a proper dismount, because sometimes writing to the device never even starts till the system has nothing to do or a sync command is given by the safely remove option of the desktop icon. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
