Phil McKerracher wrote: > Many thanks for your suggestions, Philip. > > >> Try right-clicking on physdiskwrite.exe and setting the compatibility >> mode to XP+SP3 (or just plain XP)... >> > > That didn't help (nor did Win2000 mode etc). In fact, I can find no way at > all of formatting the blank partition in Vista, even using diskpart - it > just refuses because it's "removable media". >
Hmmm... There are a few different versions of physdiskwrite.exe floating around out there... Make sure you get the right one. As I remember, it was a little hit-or-miss on Vista. But I have done it. >> Turn off flow-control (no xon/xoff, no rts/cts). >> > > That didn't help either. > > I suspect the unformatted secondary partition may be the problem. Can > anyone confirm that this must be done as a manual step to get astlinux > running on a 4801? I can't find any reference to this in any of the > documentation or mail archives. If so, it seems that using linux is the > only way to do it. I'll give it a try when I get a chance. > > I'm suspicious that physdiskwrite created the first 128MB partition in > seconds under windows but DD took 15 mins under Ubuntu (same hardware). > Why would this be? > > It wouldn't (unless it was "writing to cache" instead of "write-through"). You're limited to 12Mb/s on USB 1.1, so writing that much would take about 3 minutes minimum (am I doing my math right???). -Phiilp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
