hmm, on Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:12:32PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty said that

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> I wonder if there's a buffering thing going on.  Under both os's, what

> happens if you time it from the start of dd to the time the light stops

> flashing and you could remove the stick.  Perhaps linux's dd is

> returning while the data is still being written.

exactly.  since i bought the asus eee i have been a linux user

again, and none should envy me for that...  i have a plethora of

usb stuff with me, mp3 player, camera, external hdd, psp...

and i have truly came to hate the linux buffer system.  it is all

nice and dandy that your copy operation whizzes past like a douglas

adams deadline but when you issue the umount to take your gadget

you wait sometimes more than a minute!  what is the point of that

i ask?  i'll take a "normal" speed copy and an instant-ish umount

any day.
and the other day i shot myself in the foot with gkrellm because

i have a button set up for umounting the gadgets, and that button

just starts umount but it's a non blocking thing, it doesnt wait

for umount to actually return...  so i "umounted", removed the

mp3 player and later that day i discovered partly overwritten

files and whatnot.  madness.
so my 0.63 thai bahts (~ 2 cents) is a massive attack song

title as well: be thankful for what you have got...
i had my fair share of umass problems in the past, but i still think

that the openbsd usb stack is very reliable, and a lot of hardware

awfully misbehaves...
user@amaaq> uname -a

Linux amaaq 2.6.21.4-eeepc #21 Sat Oct 13 12:14:03 EDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
damn you atheros for your chipset, damn you!

and damn asus to use it, damn you!

otherwise an excellent little machine.  almost there to wipe the linux from it.
-f

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