On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:50:36AM -0500, bofh wrote: > I've had problems with cheap flash readers. I thought I had bad cards until > someone mentioned they had that problem too, and I tried another flash > reader. Apparently, broken one will read up to a certain limit, and then be > "broken", as in, all the files copied across were corrupted and unusable. I have seriously burned my fingers on the controllers in many kinds of cheap USB devices. I think they're running them off 5v to save the cost of a regulator or something. It's no wonder they tend to stop working after a few minutes of use.
-- Jussi Peltola