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

["David Bottrill" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Johnson said:
>
> 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)
>

I've been using a Sony 64Meg USB drive for over a year now it works
perfectly on my SuSE8.2 box at home and my work Win2K laptop.

A colleague has the same drive and had problems with Linux which in the
end turned out to be caused by a corrupted partion table. He created a new
partion table using linux fdisk and created a new fat partion under Win2K
and copied his data back. His flash drive had been in a Mac at some point
so this could have been the culprit although it was still working ok under
Windblows. He now is in the same situation as me works well with Linux and
Windows.

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