Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Hello, > I have installed Fedora 7 on my system with the kernel > 2.6.22.5-76.fc7.I run into a problem while copying to USB drives.I get a > very poor copy speed.It starts off fast but later slows down to 1MB/s > and even lower making the copying process painfully slow.I have even > updated udev to latest version.What can I do to improve the speed? Check if the thing is mounted with the "sync" option, if it is, use # mount /dev/blah /mountpoint -oremount,rw to get rid of it. Also check if you are on USB 1.1... # lsmod | grep ehci -Andy