Re: [Sheflug] USB hard disks/flash memory devices

[Paul Sims <paul_sims [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:18, Chris Johnson wrote:
> There seems to be a plethora of reasonable priced (32MB=£15) USB "flash
> drives" for file storage/backup/file transfer or whatever.
> They report to be plug and play (appearing as an extra drive letter in
> Windows Explorer with no driver install required) with Windows versions post
> 98se.
> Has anyone used one with Linux?  I'm severely tempted to get one to transfer
> downloads/mail/etc to my home PC but as most of the stuff I'm downloading is
> Linux based it would be a shame to have to put it on the Windows PC at home
> first before transferring it over the network to my Linux box(es)
> 
> Chris

My Olympus camera is a USB mass-storage device so in a roundabout way - yep! 
If you simply buy a SmartMedia/Compact Flash etc reader you can stick everything
 on a memory card & pop it in your pocket. The card/reader will appear as just
 another random-access r/w device - i.e. hdd - on insertion.

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