Colin Cotter wrote: > Is the consensus that I need to reformat the stick then? I'm a bit > nervous about this because of the "paperweight" rumours, also this > seems like a strange solution as the stick works fine with Windows, > also it worked on my colleague's RedHat machine. It is a fairly > standard USB memory stick as far as I can see...
Have not read the whole thread in detail, but I just can't imagine, why creating a new filesystem (the correct phrase for reformating :) on a memory stick should bork it. To the system, after being handled by the USB Mass Storage driver, it is just another SCSI hard drive. You would not be afraid to create a filesystem on a regular hard drive, would you? Only problem I've experienced was, when I created /dev/sda1 on my iRiver music player and created a filesystem there, the firmware in it refused to see it. Deleting the partition and creating a filesystem on the whole /dev/sda fixed it. Both Windows and Linux worked with /dev/sda1 perfectly, hence it is a problem with the firmware. In general, if a piece of HW works in a different system and/or machine, it is probably a problem with your setup, not with the HW itself. j. -- __________________________________________________________________________ "We did a risk management review. We concluded that there was no risk of any management." -- Dilbert :wq
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