On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Pedro Emílio Machado de Brito < > pedroembrito@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 2013/6/9 Alfredo Palhares <masterkorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Hello, >> > >> > So I was creating a archlinux usb bootable drive: >> > >> > [root@masterkorp-laptop Downloads]# dd bs=4M >> if=archlinux-2013.06.01-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb >> > 130+1 records in >> > 130+1 records out >> > 548405248 bytes (548 MB) copied, 0.964976 s, 568 MB/s >> > >> > I was like WOW, this was too fast! But nothing ever gets written to >> > the pen drive. >> > To add to the weird factor, a dd to dev/sdb1 (partition) works as it >> > should, slowly. But then ofcourse the iso gets unbootable. >> > >> > The md5sum on the iso is correct. >> > I tried with diferent pen drives. >> > >> > Please, any suggestions is welcome.†mo >> > >> >> I've been having this sort of problems with removable storage lately >> (copying multiple GBs of songs in a few seconds, except not really). >> The workaround I found out is to run the sync command after copying. >> > > "sync" is not a workaround, it is a right solution. I see masterkorp decided to ask on the ML too. According to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1285836#p1285836 , 'sync' doesn't fix it. Unless we have some kind of misunderstanding, this indeed is weird.
