Re: 16GB USB Drive Not Accessible

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:49 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
I recently bought a snazzy new 16GB USB pen drive from the local store
-
it was only $29! I have several drives that are 8GB and smaller from
the
same store that are the same brand.

Imagine my surprise when:
* The 16GB drive is not accessible on either F9 or F10 Snap 3
* The 8GB drives all work just fine on both F9 and F10 Snap 3
* The 16GB drive works fine on Windows XP
* The 16GB drive also works on a Windows XP VM running on top of F9!!!

I can only conclude from this that something is a miss that causes F9
to
not be able to access and use USB pen drives that are bigger than 8GB,
and that this most likely has something to do with a file system
driver
or such.

Anyone else seen this yet? Is there a fix / work-around?
I had the same behavior with a 4GB drive. What I found was that the
operation of the USB drive was screwed up by all the Windows oriented
software (such as Skype) that the manufacturer puts on the drive as a
bonus. Once I removed all that extra contents the pen drive worked under
Linux.
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