USB Key Compatibility?

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 18 12:19:19 UTC 2006


Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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?  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...
>
There is some crap out there.  A friend has one that fails with Windows.

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