From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Lexar Jump Drive & Linux?? Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:06:22 +0000 Message-ID: <4424432E.9050503@gelm.net> References: <20060324213842.GA1272@lnx2.kvinet.com> <44247618.4060701@bcgreen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44247618.4060701@bcgreen.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Stephen Samuel Cc: haltec@kvinet.com, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Stephen Samuel wrote: > > I'd try exercising it with something like the > 'badblock' command in Linux. IIRC, these USB memory drives have a limited number of write cycles. You may wish to use 'badblocks' in a readonly mode. ;-) > HTH, Chuck - 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