> > Can some one point me to where I can find how to do this? > If you are talking about the time it takes to write an image to a card, I think you should be looking at the block size option with dd. dd if=image.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M I use 1M because it works flawlessly with my card writer. I had done a google search for it and found a recommendation of 4k. But 1M works for me, so I've stuck to 1M for now. Regards Mandar Joshi