Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

[Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>]

kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> Virtually all of them work.

For small values of "work".

It's really not so simple. I know the timestamp is a bit old, but see:

http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/

and in particular, 

http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/target_offenses.txt

I made the mistake of trusting one of these things, then one day I tried
it out with a 2.6 bk snapshot, and wham! it's a paperweight. Some bad
sequence of commands seems to have fried its little brain forever. I'll
never know for sure.

Jason