USB Key Compatibility?

[Tim Writer]

"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> I've got a USB key I'm trying to troubleshoot for a friend.  It's a
> 4GB unit; seems pretty generic.
> 
> The desire is to have it "play" with both Windows and Mac systems.  I
> haven't got Windows handy; what I'm finding is that on anything
> Unix-like (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS), data seems to spontaneously corrupt
> upon unmounting.
> 
> Does this seem consistent with, say, cruddy design?

Hard to say.

What happens if you write directly to the block device (the whole device or
one of its partitions), e.g. using tar?

> I know there are variations between USB keys vis-a-vis whether they'll
> boot successfully; is this corruption likely a similar sort of thing?
> 
> I'd hate to report back "buy less crappy hardware," but I'd rather
> that than spend a lot of time debugging something that won't work...
> 
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