Current status of SanDisk USB Drives on FC3

[Robin Laing]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Mariano Draghi wrote:
> 
>> Marc Schwartz escribió:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> A search of the Fedora lists and forums would suggest an inconsistent 
>>> experience using SanDisk USB 2.0 Cruzer drives under FC3, though most 
>>> posts are a month or so old now.
>>>
>>> Some of the posts seem to indicate that turning off APIC at boot 
>>> helps, while others suggest using a USB 1.x hub has worked.
>>>
>>> I am considering the SanDisk 1.0 Gb USB 2.0 drive and am curious as 
>>> to the current experience of anyone using this drive on a fully 
>>> updated (including udev and kernel) FC3 system.
>>>
>>> Should I consider one of the other companies (ie. Lexar, PNY, etc.) 
>>> as an alternative?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm using a 256Mb USB 2.0 SandDisk Cruzer Mini on a FC3 system without 
>> any problems (BTW, tt also worked on FC2, but at that time I had to 
>> add the device ID manually so it got recognized).
>>
>> I plug this pendrive directly, with ACPI on (the default), and without 
>> passing any special parameter to the kernel on boot. It worked since 
>> the first day, and it wasn't affected by any of the kernel / udev 
>> updates (my box is fully uipdated as of yesterday now)
>>
>> The device is detected and mounted automagically on /media/usbdisk, 
>> and it's shown on the desktop (Gnome) as a removable USB disk.
> 
> 
> Mariano,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> It seems that the 256Mb and smaller drives are less problematic than the 
> larger capacity drives. Not sure if that is due to a firmware issue or 
> other problems.
> 
> I am looking at the larger drive as the costs have come down 
> substantially (< $100 U.S.) and it makes sense for what I am looking to 
> do with it.
> 
> I might just buy one, test it and see if it works. If not, return it. It 
> does not make sense to get a large drive and then have to use a USB 1.1 
> hub on it. That will be way too slow for large data transfers.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Marc
> 

I think I ran into a problem with the Sandisk 1G usb stick and it was 
due to the file system on the disk.  I ran into one type.  On further 
searching the stick had to be reformatted and a new file system added 
to work with Linux.  It was in the owners manual that I got from the 
WWW site.  Full step by step procedures.

I use a 1Gig Lexar Jumpdrive that I had to remake the file system 
before it would work.

I have a pdf manual for a USB 2.0 Flash Drive and it gives the same 
details.


-- 
Robin Laing