Current status of SanDisk USB Drives on FC3
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 24 17:52:31 UTC 2005
Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Mariano Draghi wrote:
>
>> Marc Schwartz escribió:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A search of the Fedora lists and forums would suggest an inconsistent
>>> experience using SanDisk USB 2.0 Cruzer drives under FC3, though most
>>> posts are a month or so old now.
>>>
>>> Some of the posts seem to indicate that turning off APIC at boot
>>> helps, while others suggest using a USB 1.x hub has worked.
>>>
>>> I am considering the SanDisk 1.0 Gb USB 2.0 drive and am curious as
>>> to the current experience of anyone using this drive on a fully
>>> updated (including udev and kernel) FC3 system.
>>>
>>> Should I consider one of the other companies (ie. Lexar, PNY, etc.)
>>> as an alternative?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm using a 256Mb USB 2.0 SandDisk Cruzer Mini on a FC3 system without
>> any problems (BTW, tt also worked on FC2, but at that time I had to
>> add the device ID manually so it got recognized).
>>
>> I plug this pendrive directly, with ACPI on (the default), and without
>> passing any special parameter to the kernel on boot. It worked since
>> the first day, and it wasn't affected by any of the kernel / udev
>> updates (my box is fully uipdated as of yesterday now)
>>
>> The device is detected and mounted automagically on /media/usbdisk,
>> and it's shown on the desktop (Gnome) as a removable USB disk.
>
>
> Mariano,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> It seems that the 256Mb and smaller drives are less problematic than the
> larger capacity drives. Not sure if that is due to a firmware issue or
> other problems.
>
> I am looking at the larger drive as the costs have come down
> substantially (< $100 U.S.) and it makes sense for what I am looking to
> do with it.
>
> I might just buy one, test it and see if it works. If not, return it. It
> does not make sense to get a large drive and then have to use a USB 1.1
> hub on it. That will be way too slow for large data transfers.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Marc
>
I think I ran into a problem with the Sandisk 1G usb stick and it was
due to the file system on the disk. I ran into one type. On further
searching the stick had to be reformatted and a new file system added
to work with Linux. It was in the owners manual that I got from the
WWW site. Full step by step procedures.
I use a 1Gig Lexar Jumpdrive that I had to remake the file system
before it would work.
I have a pdf manual for a USB 2.0 Flash Drive and it gives the same
details.
--
Robin Laing
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