[Leaplist] thrumbdrive 4gb..

[J.T. Hayden]

For what EVER reason, that drive is no longer produced, many of my RR
computer techs have been looking for that type drive, but its no where to be
found.

          J.T. Hayden
             KG4BFJ
 
home\office  -  407.891.1835
office\mobile -  407.922.3091
-----Original Message-----
From: leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org [mailto:leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org] On
Behalf Of John Simpson
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 00:47
To: fred at fmeco.com; This is the Leap Main List
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] thrumbdrive 4gb.. 

On 2007-11-18, at 0725, Fred Moore wrote:
>
> Circuit City has 4GB SanDisk Cruzer for 59 bucks.. you can even do a
> free 24 minute pickup at the store.. This drive has U3 on it..   While
> U3 won't boot under linux, it acts like a standard usb drive..

the U3 stuff can be removed, although you have to do it on a windoze  
machine... once that's done, the entire 4GB becomes usable. i've had  
one for a while, i have it partitioned as 500MB for windoze and 3.5GB  
for mac.

one strange thing was that when i first set this up, windoze couldn't  
see the windoze partition at all- but when i re-formatted it with the  
windoze partition as sda1 and the mac partition as sda2 (actually  
"disk2s0" and "disk2s1" on the mac) windoze was able to see and use  
the FAT32 partition.

what i'm actually looking for, and haven't seen for a few years, is a  
USB memory stick with a physical write-protect switch. i have one,  
which i use to carry around windoze anti-virus and security programs,  
so that i can install them on clients' windoze machines, but it's only  
512MB and i really need a 1GB or bigger. if anybody knows where i can  
find one, WITH A HARDWARE WRITE-PROTECT SWITCH, please let me know.

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