I've had nothing but problems with smaller (256-512MB) "Cruzer" flash drives. Using SuSE, I have been unable to access or use the drives, either from the start, or after little use. Some friends have had the same experience. Other people I know using windows have lost everything on the drive when switching between different flavors of Windows or between Mac and Windows (I've seen it happen just when they try to plug in to transfer their PowerPoint for a presentation ).
In contrast, I've never had any problems with Memorex flash drives. YMMV, but I've concluded SanDisk uses poor quality chips and/or weird formatting, and one need not invoke counterfeiters to explain failure. David Looney Wayne Jr wrote: > FYI. I contacted SanDisk and they suggested that the 4.0GB Cruzer > Mini drives I purchased (on eBay) were probably counterfeit. SanDisk > requested the vendor IDs of the flash drives which I can see from > Device Manager/Details and I just submitted those numbers to them, > but I strongly suspect they are right and that these flash drives are > counterfeit because both of them are pretty much useless and > worthless. -- Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
