[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [SATLUG] USB Pen Drives

[Ed Coates]

Thanks to everyone for the information on the Pen Drives.  I went out to
Frys yesterday and purchased a PNY Attache 128MB USB 2.0 Pen Drive for
$50.  In Windows 2000/XP, you just plug it in and off it goes.  It
detected it right away, and it became drive J.

I run a vanilla SuSE 8.2 server that sits behind the firewall as a
web/mail/MySQL/etc server.  I plugged it into the USB port and

Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel:   Vendor:           Model: USB DISK 2.0
Rev: 1.15
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: SCSI device sda: 253952 512-byte hdwr
sectors (130 MB)
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel:  sda: sda1
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity
not assured
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Nov 29 20:04:54 nighthawk kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.

Voila, instant detection.  Mounted /dev/sda1 and off I went.  Now to see
if I have a machine to take advantage of booting from USB.

Thanks again to everybody.

Ed

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Ed Coates wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been looking at these things, and I wonder if they can be used in
> Linux.  I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with the Pen
> Drives.  How are they used?  Do you put a filesystem on them to store
> information on them?  Can they be booted from?  Can you take, let's say, a
> 512MB or a 1GB Pen Drive, install Linux on it, and use it for a firewall
> if the motherboard can boot a USB device?
>
> Ed
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