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



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)
> 

Most come with a standard "works with Linux 2.4 kernel" small print, of
course the particular one you are looking at might not work - but in
general they are USB mass storage devices.

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Adam Allen.

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