From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux?? Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:38:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20060324213842.GA1272@lnx2.kvinet.com> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Greetings: One year ago I bought a Lexar 256mB Jump Drive; put an ext2 FS on it and used it to transport small files from one Linux machine to another, all running 2.4.XX kernels, and mounting the drive as /dev/sda1, per dmesg... All of a sudden I couldn't write to it unless the files were less than 30mB total size.. I figured the drive must be bad; still in warranty according to Lexar, so I contacted their support people.. First off they say I must reformat the drive using Windows and included instructions for doing this with Win98SE or XP... SE didn't even see the drive so I fetched the newest driver from their site and never did get it to work... Then I went to an XP machine and was able to format the drive as per their instructions so it now seems to work fine as long as it's formatted FAT32 (VFAT)... Am I presuming I have to _not_ use a Linux FS with this or other jump or flash drives?? (I do have a UL641 64mB drive that's fine ext2, so far) I've been telling some that the Lexar 256 drive works with Linux.. I'll have to retract that unless I can figure out what happened, eh?? Any comments. TIA.. (Of course the drive 'specs' don't list Linux, as usual.) :^( -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs