On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:25:23AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same problem. > > After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem when > > untaring anymore. > > The speed rating by itself isn't very useful. The random-access write > speed has the biggest effect when used on a computer and since it is > hardly relevant to use with a camera, doesn't usually get mentioned. > In particular look for cards which do multisector transfers (i.e. > they /don't/ say "1-sector PIO" in the attach line in dmesg), e.g. > almost all recent sandisk, some innodisk cards, and not many others.
I'm using a 2 GB Transcend x300 which says # dmesg | grep wd0 wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <TRANSCEND> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 1943MB, 3980592 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 The speed is absolutely OK and sufficient -- no stalling and nothing that slows anything down. > Also on the Alix systems note that there's a UDMA option you can > enable in tinyBIOS that defaults to Off. Didn't know that. Thanks for the hint :) -- t.walkow...@wallstreet-online.de
