[clug] USB memory stick
Michael Carden
crash at michaelcarden.net
Mon Apr 12 06:21:34 GMT 2004
Thanks for the suggestions all.
I hadn't considered a possible hardware fault, so that's a useful avenue for
investigation. The thing is actually brand new, it was won by a friend who
didn't need it and passed to me 'as new in the box.' Still, that doesn't mean
it works, right?
So I opened it up and found that it's made by OTi in Taiwan. It has a Samsung
32 meg flash IC in it and unused space for another. Under bright light and
magnification the soldering looks quite nice, but I reflowed the USB
connector just in case.
No change.
I don't actually have another USB-capable machine to try it in here at the
moment, so I can't yet see if it fires up readily under, for example,
Windows.
As for fdisk and partitions etc, I need to get it to hang on to the system for
long enough to talk to it first...
MC
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