On 2007/11/16 14:10, Stefan Klein wrote:

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> Sorry for the delay, I overlooked your reply....

>

> If I use exactly the same commands / mount options as you I get less than

> 1MB/s....

>

> I know that I cannot expect a "good" performance with the CF card, but 5MB/s

> would just be fine :-)

You can expect very good performance in some circumstances

(e.g. random reads).
> What else can I try?
A different card .. I just tried with two different random

cards from my desk, one is 3x the speed of the other.
It's not a CF, but by far the slowest flash device I have is an

industrial DOM. Really painfully slow - untarring baseXX.tgz takes

getting on for an hour. You might do better with consumer cards ..