[H-GEN] using a USB thumbrive with Linux

[David]

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 El Lun 29 Sep 2003 09:08 PM, Sandra Milne escribió:
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> David wrote:
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> > beware - top posting...
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> > thanks for all of that. Very educational. I can't repartition it (not
> > mine) just want to r/w it. I'll try this tomorrow night and see how it
> > goes. If they weren't so blessed expensive I'd go buy one...
>
> We bought out 16meg drive for $19. $59 will get you one with 128meg
> capacity if you know where to buy it.[1] The prices go up a bit if you
> want hi-speed USB (aka usb 2.0). I find that even for our external 30gig
> drive, for most stuff usb 1.1 is fine.
>

Maybe it was just the brand/size combination that contributed to the $400 
price tag.  Seems cheaper ones are readily had.

thanks
David

> Sandra.
> [1] http://www.thediscshop.com.au/list.cgi?page=memory-USBMemory

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