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On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:03:24 +0000 |
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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 20 February 2011 17:44:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:33:52 -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> > > As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules |
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> > > is: KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", |
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> > > |
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> > > RUN+="/bin/mount -a" |
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> > > |
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> > > and in /etc/fstab is: |
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> > > /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0 |
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> > |
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> > Could the delay be caused by something else is fstab trying to mount |
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> > and failing? Try with mount /dev/PNY instead of mount -a. |
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> > |
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> > Even better use pmount /dev/PNY. |
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> > Either way, you should run the command with & because udev blocks |
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> > while running commands. |
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> |
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> To state the obvious ... have you tried it on a different USB port, a |
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> different PC and finally a different OS? |
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> |
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> I've had a USB stick failing recently and there was a mechanical |
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> (contact) problem. So a process of elimination would at least do |
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> away with physical level problems and indirectly confirm if there is |
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> something wrong with your system. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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The PNY stick mentioned runs very nicely on a machine at work. The |
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environment there is Ubuntu (as guest OS) running in VMWare on |
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WinXP (as host OS). Automounting works very nicely. |
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The slowness is true of several USB sticks. |
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