yes, but even with sync it should not be that slow. with other flash drives I get 2+MB/s. the main reason I started mounting it with sync was because of the slow writing: unmounting would take forever. On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Matthew Dharm<mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 08:51:17PM -0500, Alex Yu wrote: >> I am getting very low write speeds to a Samsung P3 pmp - about 450KB/s. On >> windows, it is 4MB/s. I have tested this on 3 different machines and >> obtained similar results. > > Are you mounting it with -o sync? That will cause a tremendous speed > slowdown... > > Matt > > -- > Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver > > E: You run this ship with Windows?! YOU IDIOT! > L: Give me a break, it came bundled with the computer! > -- ESR and Lan Solaris > User Friendly, 12/8/1998 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html