RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. [snip]

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
] Subject: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you wrote: SNIP What happens if you cp between two hard drives, or across the network? Same crazy slowness? -- Gary R. Van Sickle How about 'tar --diff' and '--update' - tried them? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72-- ** mailing list preference;

[OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. [snip] (EIGHT USB 2.0 connectors? Wowzers!

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. [snip] (EIGHT USB 2.0

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you wrote: Thanks for responding, Gary. Regardless, 3.7Mb/second seems like something's wrong somewhere. Are you running USB2.0 hub-to-device? I dunno. I'm not very knowledgable about hardware esp. USB. How would I tell? dar Sorry for butting in... I'd say it should've read USB 2.0

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread David A. Rogers
Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. I don't think caching is the difference. I was able to unzip the .zip file right after xcopy had copied

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on : Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. Right, then we know. ;-) I don't think caching is the

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. Ok, like Hannu said, it's a USB 2.0 connection then, as long as you don't have any USB 1.1 hubs

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I tried using cp to copy a zip file 106MB from my hard drive to my flash drive (sandisk mini cruzer). After 20 minutes it still had not completed. xcopy copied the file in 22 seconds. Why would cp be so much slower? Any ideas as to work-arounds? Last I checked, cp was slower on