Hi, has anyone had any luck with the little flash usb drives and linux? I'm thinking of getting one to make carrying work from here to home and back easier. Thanks, Jen
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Hi Jen,
I've got a USB pen drive (128Mb Disgo from PC World), which just appears as a SCSI disk when it's connected. You need SCSI disk support in your kernel. Mount in the normal way (appears as /dev/sdX)
HTH
Chris
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 16:31, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Hi, has anyone had any luck with the little flash usb drives and linux? I'm thinking of getting one to make carrying work from here to home and back easier. Thanks, Jen
90% of them should work fine, only the really cheap and nasty ones may give problems or others I have encountered that have advanced features like encryption or fingerprint recognition. A good rule with USB based storage is that if it works with Win2000/XP without third party drivers it is probably using the generic "mass storage controller" driver which works fine in Linux.
On 3 Mar 2004, at 16:31, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
has anyone had any luck with the little flash usb drives and linux? I'm thinking of getting one to make carrying work from here to home and back easier.
Speaking about pen drives... Did anyone see Hustle on BBC 1 last night? Did my eyes actually tells me that he copied the entire filesystem from that laptop to his pen drive?
That must have been some big pen drive.....
C
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:50, Craig wrote:
Speaking about pen drives... Did anyone see Hustle on BBC 1 last night? Did my eyes actually tells me that he copied the entire filesystem from that laptop to his pen drive?
Not only that, but it must have been a USB2 one. Two minutes and a windows progress bar that actually reported an accurate time to finish....if only computers really worked like that.
On 4 Mar 2004, at 07:40, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:50, Craig wrote:
Speaking about pen drives... Did anyone see Hustle on BBC 1 last night? Did my eyes actually tells me that he copied the entire filesystem from that laptop to his pen drive?
Not only that, but it must have been a USB2 one. Two minutes and a windows progress bar that actually reported an accurate time to finish....if only computers really worked like that.
If only.... would be great to work from one like that.
(Unlike Apple sort out 'Home' on the iPod!)
C
On Thursday 04 March 2004 7:40 am, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:50, Craig wrote:
Speaking about pen drives... Did anyone see Hustle on BBC 1 last night? Did my eyes actually tells me that he copied the entire filesystem from that laptop to his pen drive?
Not only that, but it must have been a USB2 one. Two minutes and a windows progress bar that actually reported an accurate time to finish....if only computers really worked like that.
It looked more like an external HD to me. Nice to see MovieOS is still in use though.
BenE
On 3/3/2004, "Jenny Hopkins" Jenny@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Hi, has anyone had any luck with the little flash usb drives and linux? I'm thinking of getting one to make carrying work from here to home and back easier. Thanks, Jen
I've got an Oracom 200M (128Mb) - http://www.oracom.co.kr/english/index.htm (top left one) - works great to transfer files, and plays MP3 files as well. The box it came in even had a little Tux on it, so it's 100% supported.
Matt
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