Hi, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 06:57:35 -0800 Randall R Schulz <.> wrote:
To the OP (Pelibali): What program is doing the writing that's so slow? If it's "cp" or "mv" or the default bs= / obs= values of "dd", then things ought to be OK. On the other hand, many other applications will not write in sector-aligned quantities and could trigger the symptom of very slow writing without there being any bug afoot.
I tried to copy stuff under icewm and then remotely through ssh with cp, but at the end I confirmed the 20 minute e.g. under the KDE session of my girly. She has tons of floppies, so probably will push me to give her back 9.x, where she never had this problem... Thanks anyway, Pelibali PS. If you would have thoughts, why cp could be theoretically slow, please consider to tell us in few words. I would be interested to listen to your explanation, but I'm afraid, ~20 minutes can't be easily explained. Hmmm, just realizing, that all of the three comps are AMDs... Anyway, the sync/nosync options I will try asap, just to be sure that it is (or it is not) so simple.