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Lexar Impact (256 MB)
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2 19456 02-21-2006
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Description: This is the "Impact" usb flash drive manufactured by Lexar, 256mb. I got it at Walmart for 28.00, all I had to do with Mandrake 10.0 was enter a line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/lexar vfat umask=111,user,rw,noauto
then to mount insert drive and type "mount /mnt/lexar"
and to umount before removing the drive type "umount /mnt/lexar". If copying a lot of stuff sometimes I have to wait a bit for the umount command to finish before removing the drive because of the buffer. Otherwise it works fine.
Keywords: Impact 256mb usb flash drive


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Old 02-19-2006, 08:45 PM   #1
ctkroeker
 
Registered: May 2005
Posts: 1,565

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7

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Pros:It's cheap, it's fast, doesn't require drivers, great.

Cons: I couldn't get it to work as a boot device, i.e. for DSL, Puppy. It did not let me partition it either.
 
Old 02-21-2006, 05:32 AM   #2
SharpyWarpy
 
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Fedora 18
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
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Actually, it will boot. I copied a linux floppy boot disk image to it, modified my bios and it booted fine.
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img bs=2x80x18b conv=notrunc
then
dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/sdb1
reboot, editing bios appropriately along the way. I didn't have to repartition, tried all that and it didn't work. The simple method above works.
 




  



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