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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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> > Storage cannot do concurrent IO.
> 
> I'm going to jump in here and ask a simple question, what is the
> blocking point that stops writes happening concurrent with reads?

The protocol on USB allows one command at a time only.

	Regards
		Oliver