[TAG] Hard Drive Access Locking out Application

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:50:23PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> 
>>sklund1 at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have noticed that when I write large files to a USB pendrive or compact 
>>>flash, there can be quite a delay from umounting the device and "flushing" 
>>>the output buffers. However, I did not see the the "lockouts" described 
>>>above on my older (2+ years older) Sony Vaio.
>>
>>How long is "quite a delay"?   Yes, it can takes a significant amount of 
>>time to unmount devices.  No, I haven't seen flash devices taking longer 
>>than fifteen seconds.  But there may be some devices or computers out 
>>there that do, and there may be nothing you can do about it.
> 
> 
> My old 128MB SmartMedia card, which I was using in a FlashPath device
> (looks like a floppy, accepts a flash device) took several minutes
> whenever I copied a large image to it; heck, I recall a 5MB gzipped file
> taking at least a minute or so. Not only could you not umount it during
> that time, the CPU activity (???) was so high that other operation on
> the computer became painfully slow. This may well have been due to the
> (proprietary) software, though (it was the only thing available for
> FlashPath under Linux at the time.)

I've seen worse... try Captive NTFS - 2MB file took 25+ minutes :)