suspicious f12 usb drive behavior [SOLVED]

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 08:08 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I found the --bwlimit option of rsync, and persuaded
> rsync to write at only half the average speed the device could
> actually support. Ta-DA! Perfectly copied files - no
> checksum errors.

You hadn't previously mentioned you were using rsync. Depending on what
exactly you're doing, rsync can certainly more b/w than you expect
because it reads the target volume to see what needs to be changed.

poc