Andriy Babiy wrote:
Hi everybody,
While looking for a new USB flash drive, I found that some of them come with:
- U3 feature
- ReadyBoost feature
- security software, either pre-installed or zipped on the drive
- hardware data encryption
Some of them need partitioning/formatting.
My question is: is there anything that would prevent me from using such drives
on FreeBSD machine?
Google shows that U3 can be uninstalled. What about other features?
Thank you in advance.
Andriy
Hi Andriy,
I have a few Flash drives from different manufacturers. They all work
just fine, detecting as SCSI devices on /dev/da0.
One of them I couldn't format under Windows. I assume it was some sort
of software on the drive. I was able to format it using the port
ntfsprogs under FreeBSD. Hurrah for FreeBSD! :D
If it was some sort of software preventing the format, it was Windows
only. I think U3 would have a really hard time preventing format under
all operating systems, but of course I'm only guessing there.
HtH,
Adam J Richardson
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