[ale] USB pen drive killed?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 09:27 am, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> I have done some "bad" things to my pen drive.  I went back to windows and
> reformatted the pen drive.  One "bad" thing you can do is pull the pen from
> the linux box without unmounting  the drive.  I have had mandrake 9.0
> completely crash.  I had to reimage the box.  It never did recover.

If you are using mandrake, you should make the pendrive use supermount--then 
you should be able to put it in and pull it out with impunity.  Just look in 
/etc/fstab for how the cdrom is set up, then imitate it for your pen drive.  
Never use mount/umount again!

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Hardie [mailto:pete.hardie at sciatl.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:27 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] USB pen drive killed?
>
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:07:19PM -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> >>Anyone know if I did a Bad Thing(tm) in leaving it attached when
> >> rebooting? Am I SOL and killed the drive?  Or is it just something with
> >> the locam box USB drivers that I bollixed up?  Inquiring minds want to
> >> know!
> >
> > Rebooting should not kill a drive.  It could be a cheap drive.
>
> That's my fear.  I will try the drive on my home system and see if it
> responds differently.