On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote: > As I write this, it occurs to me that perhaps the commonality here > is the USB interconnect. In the first scenario, I'm using a CF reader to > write to a CF card. This CF reader is connected via a USB 1.0 port. In > the second scenario, I'm using a USB thumb drive of some kind. The second > scenario can be extended to a third by connecting a USB thumb drive to a > USB 2.0 port. I've found that writing files over USB-2.0 is frought with > difficulties. You said you're running NetBSD on several systems. Have you verified this on more than one machine? If not, what type of machine is this? Andy