Re: USB Drives

John Culleton wrote:
> The perennial problem with Knoppix on  Windows XP systems is 
> the inability of Linux to reliably read/write to the NTFS 
> file system.  The little USB devices called thumb drives or 
> key drives with flash memory are a potiential way to 
> provide some limited R/W disk space to allow Knoppix to 
> operate on an XP system, even for naive users. 
> 
> Does Knoppix automatically recognize these devices? 
> 
> Has anyone used them with Knoppix? 

every day ;)

they are recognized as scsi devices, look for /dev/sd* device files
and read them through /mnt/auto/sd*

> Must they be formatted in a special way to work with lInux/

no, vfat reads/writes FAT devices

bye

> Knoppix?

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