Re: Need recommendation for USB Thumb Drive

At Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:22:46 -0700 ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


HI All,

Cent OS 5 (RHEL 5 Clone).

My imation swivel drive corrupts everytime I copy something
large to it with either "cp" or "rsync". I like the drive because it

Are you properly unmounting the drive before pulling it off the
connector? Unlike mess-windows, Linux does file system cacheing and may
not write all buffers out until you dismount the file system.

has
a "write protect" switch. (It goes into a lot of infected Windows
machines and Windows' viruses now will jump to thumb drives.)
But if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. The partition table even
gets corrupted. My other non-switch thumb drive do not corrupt.

Can anyone recommend me a 4 GB USB thumb drive that:

1) won't corrupt with "cp" or "rsync", AND
2) has a write protect switch?

Many thanks,
-T



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