Fun with USB drives.

**techieMoe** · 08-15-2005

Yes, I'm bored at work. This weekend I bought a USB flash drive and was pretty happy with it. I even wrote a short review for it on my site. I was curious what brands and models other folks have had success with in Linux. Mine was a PNY Attache 512MB.

**George Harrison** · 08-15-2005

I have a 512MB Sandisk I think.. It's lost in the oblivion I like to call my room.

**borromini** · 08-15-2005

I have a SanDisk 256 USB 2.0, I bought it with the intention of putting Slax on it but kept running into errors. Also, I wanted to partition it (2 partitions) but for some strange reason Windows wouldn't just accept that

. Now I formatted it with FAT16 in Windows, but it's still giving me errors when I try to install Slax... Even more

?

My other is a fairly old Fujitsu-Siemens Memorybird 256 MB USB 1.1 - bought that a few years ago when they were spanking new... There's a nice story about that... I had to take the airplane and kept the stick with me in my backpack. Went through the metal detector (before nine-eleven

), it went of, guys went searching me, I had to take everything out. Don't know what they thought it was but noone had ever seen it, so they just assumed it was something dangerous :P.

***Cabhan*** · 08-15-2005

I have a 64 MB DELL one that came with my computer

.

Though my mp3 player (iRiver H320) acts as a 20 GB USB drive when I need it to

.

oz · 08-15-2005

Yeah, I have three of them, and they are indeed sweet...

1 GB Corsair Flash Voyager (very fast)
512 MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini (fast)
512 MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini (fast)

**onlinebacon** · 08-15-2005

I got some Disgo 128mb, pretty good, my dad had a friend at work who's drive was driven over by a car, still worked, good build wuality

**Vergil83** · 08-15-2005

I have 256 mb lexar. I have had it for about 1/2 year and works great in linux, xp, and 98 (with the correct drivers

). I have portable firefox on one partition and linux on the other

**borromini** · 08-15-2005

Originally Posted by Vergil83

I have 256 mb lexar. I have had it for about 1/2 year and works great in linux, xp, and 98 (with the correct drivers

). I have portable firefox on one partition and linux on the other

How did you get to format it? And does Windows recognize both partitions? Some info please

.

**LondoJowo** · 08-15-2005

I'm using a Kingston 512MB and I've also used a Sandisk 256MB.

**Giro** · 08-15-2005

Im sure Linux will work with any usb thumb drive as long as usb storage devices are enabled in the kernel.

How did you get to format it? And does Windows recognize both partitions? Some info please

Just make a fat filesystem like so.

Code:

mkfs.vfat /dev/<device>

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