installboot: broken MBR

2010-01-04 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
Hello, I have linux and openbsd installed on a single drive. Linuxy fdisk shows Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 24017 1929165215 Extended Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 24018 30401

writing to usb very slow

2010-01-17 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
Hello, I have noticed that writing to a usb drive is slow. What does slow mean? It means that compared to other OS's. Which OS's? Yes, it hurts: the penguin. Information: The external drive has been formated as ext2, so that I can mount it with obsd and the penguin Copying some 72G takes ~

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
Hello Donald, well, I cannot tell the same here. I still think it must be related to that usb 1.0 being reported in dmesg usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 Intel EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
Hello, this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took 40 minutes to copy 285M. This one was Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
which filesystem are you using on that device? T. 2010/1/19 FRLinux frli...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM, T. Tofus von Blisstein tuffst...@googlemail.com wrote: this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took 40 minutes to copy 285M. Mmmh, clearly your

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
is going on (at least within my limits of understanding!) Thanks T. 2010/1/19 David Vasek va...@fido.cz: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: Hello, this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took 40 minutes to copy 285M. This one was Jan 19 21:18:04 hux

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
...@fido.cz: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: Hello, this is an example. Attached is a 1GB (fat!) usb memory stick. It took 40 minutes to copy 285M. This one was Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only Jan 19 21:18:04 hux /bsd: scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
sorry about that, but I also have noticed this problem with external usb drives I don't have any kind of test to report yet, though 2010/1/19 Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:54:16PM +0100, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: The point is that I have many huge USB

Re: writing to usb very slow

2010-01-19 Thread T. Tofus von Blisstein
# mount -o async /dev/sd1a /mnt # date cp -r TEST/ /mnt umount /mnt date Wed Jan 20 00:17:54 CET 2010 Wed Jan 20 00:33:35 CET 2010 2010/1/20 David Vasek va...@fido.cz: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, T. Tofus von Blisstein wrote: Hello David, thanks. You're welcome. # mount /dev/sd1a /mnt