Splitting large zip archives

[R Kimber]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:52:42 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> However, if you should write a script, consider to post it at
> http://pastebin.com/ or similar and to post the link here, since it
> might be useful for pother users too.
 
OK. I wrote the script, and it seems to work.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsg2qzhh2d0luwn/splitzip?dl=0

However, I now discover that in the short run at least it's been a waste of
time, due to a long-standing linux USB bug, because of which everything
grinds to a halt when you attempt to copy a large file (<4GB) to a USB
stick. The process seems to hang after about 2.5GB and the machine becomes
barely useable.

dmesg periodically says things like:
usb 1-12: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdh] CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 01 55 73 28 00 00 f0 00
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdh, sector 22377256

There seems to be a workaround that I haven't had time to try yet.  Maybe
the problem will be fixed in 16.04

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber