Re: [NTLK] OT: USB Pen Drives

From: John Ruschmeyer (jruschme_at_comcast.net)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 07:20:04 PST

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Linux (RedHat 8), actually, though my boss was using Win2K.

Jochen suggested the idea that this was simply a case of unplugging the
drive before the buffer cache was flushed. I confess that I hadn't thought
of that at first since I was using mtools to write to the drive.

Time to go test a theory...

Thanks...
<<<John>>>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: optix
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:55 PM
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> Are you by any chance using Windows?
>
> Responding to John Ruschmeyer's comment:
> <snip>
> ||At this point, I assumed the data was being corrupted either during the
> ||unplug or replug or by the absence of power.
> <snip>

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