At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:45:10 +0100, raymond meyer wrote: > > On Thursday 11 September 2008 16:53:33 Swift Griggs wrote: > > Not to be negative, but I've also had the same experience. USB+msdos/vfat > > == crashes & fs-lockouts. ie.. Either the storage locks up or the machine > > does. I've also noticed that USB+msdos_fs is orders of magnitude slower > > than ffs/lfs/ext2 on the same unit. I know it's an ineffecient FS, but not > > 200%+ slower. > > I'm using a recent NettBSD-current on sparc64 hardware and I never had > lockups > with USB. Maybe it's something related to a particular USB driver? I use a > Belkin PCI USB card and I regularly transfer music and image files to/from > USB sticks formated with FAT32 filesystem. Never had any issues with it. I use 4.0-RC1/i386 on an amd-based desktop and 4.99.72 on a Core 2 Duo-based laptop. On both I use (different) USB hard disks to which I regularly backup using rsync. Furthermore, I frequently use USB memory sticks (from several different vendors) on these machines, several (different) digital cameras and a TomTom One 3rd edition. I have yet to see any issues with reading or writing any data to these devices. Have you excluded other causes? Best regards, Marko
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