On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:49 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
I recently bought a snazzy new 16GB USB pen drive from the local store
it was only $29! I have several drives that are 8GB and smaller from the same store that are the same brand.
Imagine my surprise when:
- The 16GB drive is not accessible on either F9 or F10 Snap 3
- The 8GB drives all work just fine on both F9 and F10 Snap 3
- The 16GB drive works fine on Windows XP
- The 16GB drive also works on a Windows XP VM running on top of F9!!!
I can only conclude from this that something is a miss that causes F9 to not be able to access and use USB pen drives that are bigger than 8GB, and that this most likely has something to do with a file system driver or such.
Anyone else seen this yet? Is there a fix / work-around?
I had the same behavior with a 4GB drive. What I found was that the operation of the USB drive was screwed up by all the Windows oriented software (such as Skype) that the manufacturer puts on the drive as a bonus. Once I removed all that extra contents the pen drive worked under Linux. -- ======================================================================= "I thought you were trying to get into shape." "I am. The shape I've selected is a triangle." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net