Re: Need recommendation for USB Thumb Drive

At Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:54:05 -0700 ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


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.

Hi Robert,

Oh yes. I am very careful about my mounts and unmounts.
My backup drives are external SATA and I am REALLY
careful before pulling them out. I am very, very use to it.

Do you know of a stick that meets my specifications?

No. My understanding that the USB Mass Storage drivers are pretty
stable and the USB Mass Storage protocol is pretty standardized, which
suggests that *any* USB Mass Storage device should work out-of-the-box.


-T

p.s. If you would like to see a corruption in action (this
would be rsync). Keep in mind that my other non-imation
sticks work fine:

Drivers/LendersToolbox/LTBSetup-8.2.exe
Drivers/MediaPlayer/
Drivers/MediaPlayer/10.0-XP/
Drivers/MediaPlayer/10.0-XP/MP10Setup.exe
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes [sender]: Broken
pipe
(32)
rsync: write failed on
"/mnt/MyCDs/./Drivers/MediaPlayer/10.0-XP/MP10Setup.exe": Input/output
error
(5)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(258)
[receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (40801 bytes received so far)
[generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(453)
[generator=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (13244 bytes received so far)
[sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(453)
[senderDrivers/LendersToolbox/LTBSetup-8.2.exe
Drivers/MediaPlayer/
Drivers/MediaPlayer/10.0-XP/
Drivers/MediaPlayer/10.0-XP/MP10Setup.exe
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes [sender]: Broken
pipe
(32)
rsync: write failed on
"/mnt/MyCDs/./Drivers/MediaPlayer/10.0-XP/MP10Setup.exe": Input/output
error
(5)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(258)
[receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (40801 bytes received so far)
[generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(453)
[generator=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (13244 bytes received so far)
[sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(453)
[sender=2.6.9]
=2.6.9]


This looks like some sort of hardware problem. Are you sure your thumb
drive is not in fact 'broken' somehow?



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