04-07-2016, 01:23 PM
(04-07-2016, 01:16 PM)faddah Wrote: [*]@longsleep or anyone who knows — to flash and copy the Micro SD cards on my Mac OS X iMac, you use the 'dd' command at the terminal. is there anything else, some other utility app for Mac OS X or general *Nix that can be used on Mac OS X that is faster? thus far, it takes a little over an hour each time to flash a 64GB MicroSD that is Class-10 & UHS-3, fastest on the market. it seems to me it should just not take that long. any suggestions would be appreciated.
You are probably doing it wrong. Follow one of the various methods for Mac OS as described here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...ges/mac.md - one of them might be much faster (especially /dev/rdisk vs /dev/disk). I do not know anything about mac. Easy fix, get rid of it and use Linux