USB Memory 'stick' recommendation

[James Knott]

Peter M Garfield wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Madison wrote:
> 
>>I have the el-cheapo Apacer brand 64MB stick and though I won't say much
>>for it's quality (I was/am poor so I went cheap) it does work just fine
>>under Linux.
> 
> 
> I also went el-cheapo; my USB flash drive (as I know it) says
> "PowerData" on the front.  I have no problems at home on my Mandrake
> 9.0 system or the Windows XP box at the office.
> 
> However, on my desk at work on an updated Red Hat 7.3 (where I'm not
> root).  On this machine, the USB drive only works on fresh re-boots.
> After some time (and I haven't experimented enough to see what the
> problem is) it will *appear* to work, but then not really write to the
> drive.  If I leave it mounted, the files I've written to /mnt/flash/
> will simply vanish.  On the other hand, if I unmount and remount,
> they're not there.  It's as if the drive is read-only, which it
> isn't.  This quirk aside, this USB keychain drives are marvelous
> things.  I'd still prefer a CD burner in the office, but only just. :)


I'm also using RH 7.3 and it works fine with my pen drive.  However, I 
am running devlabel, which detects and correctly mounts USB & PCMCIA drives.



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