slow transfer to usbstick

[David Fletcher]

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 23:36 +0100, Tamás Gajdos wrote:
> I have two usb sticks a Verbatim, which works at 10 Mb/sec nearly and
> a no-name which starts at 8 Mb/sec and when it reaches 120 Mb of
> copied data, it slowes to 1,2 Mb/sec and stays there till the end.
> 

When I transfer OSM based maps to the micro SD card in my Garmin eTrex
it takes ages and ages, but gets there eventually. Strange thing is, it
seems to get to 99.9% 10 times quicker than the last bit takes.

Dave