How to use flash drive ?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 17:55 +0200, Per Qvindesland wrote:
> Ok this one might be a bit obvious question but have you tried writing
> anything to the drive and if any errors what is the output? 

I was given one as a gift that turned out to be dodgy (most embarassing
for the both of us).  The friend who gave me tested it and didn't find a
problem, but every test I did showed one:  Corrupted files.  I had to
fill the drive past a certain point before the errors occurred, and it
didn't matter whether it was Windows or Linux...

Since then, I test new flashdrives.  I fill them almost full, then use
"diff" to check for errors.

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