On 04/09/06, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I've not had this problem, but my initial question is whether you are
probably unmounting the drive under linux. (Right click, choose
unmount, I think.) The reason is that writes to USB-connected flash
drives are buffered in Linux. The file will appear to copy, but
actually was only written to a memory buffer and not written to the
actual drive until some seconds/minute or two later. When you unmount
the drive, that memory buffer is cleared and actually written to the
disk. Make sense?

Yes it does, and it did (except that it's called eject in Ubuntu). Thanks for your help to resolve this. Interestingly the time it takes to write to the drive seems to be dependant on number of files rather than total size.

Oh, and the Windows thoughts are going away.

Regards

Llywelyn Owen
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