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

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