I reverted to jaunty due to other problems on karmic and noticed that this bug appears to not occur on jaunty.
date -R; time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1024; date -R
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:48:35 -0500
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 103.843 s, 10.3 MB/s
real 1m43.852s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m1.608s
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:50:18 -0500
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uname -a
Linux x200 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I reverted to jaunty due to other problems on karmic and noticed that this bug appears to not occur on jaunty.
date -R; time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1024; date -R
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:48:35 -0500
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 103.843 s, 10.3 MB/s
real 1m43.852s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m1.608s
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:50:18 -0500
--
uname -a
Linux x200 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux