On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:49 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I recently bought a snazzy new 16GB USB pen drive from the local store > - > it was only $29! I have several drives that are 8GB and smaller from > the > same store that are the same brand. > > Imagine my surprise when: > * The 16GB drive is not accessible on either F9 or F10 Snap 3 > * The 8GB drives all work just fine on both F9 and F10 Snap 3 > * The 16GB drive works fine on Windows XP > * The 16GB drive also works on a Windows XP VM running on top of F9!!! > > I can only conclude from this that something is a miss that causes F9 > to > not be able to access and use USB pen drives that are bigger than 8GB, > and that this most likely has something to do with a file system > driver > or such. > > Anyone else seen this yet? Is there a fix / work-around? I had the same behavior with a 4GB drive. What I found was that the operation of the USB drive was screwed up by all the Windows oriented software (such as Skype) that the manufacturer puts on the drive as a bonus. Once I removed all that extra contents the pen drive worked under Linux. -- ======================================================================= "I thought you were trying to get into shape." "I am. The shape I've selected is a triangle." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
