On 20/04/2010, at 4:05 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2010 23:51:21 Sean Howard wrote: >> I have a Kingston, it has behaved very erratically (and currently lost its >> partition, leaving the drive unformatted). I've done no research into this, >> but a similar problem is there. I found formatting it would work for a few >> days (but didn't want to try harder than that for just a USB drive). >> >> Somebody claiming to be Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> Though I find that with each OpenBSD release an increasing array of >>> exotic USB devices are supported, I got the shock >>> of my life with my newly purchased USB stick. >>> >>> This is what I get from USB probing. > [snip] > > Do not discount a bad usb stick. I've seen a few brands which were (or, > are) pretty bad. One particular 1G/2G batch of pny sticks had about 50% > not working on OpenBSD. I got them to test because they were flaky on > Windows, too. I know there are incompatible sticks out there, but I've > crashed into just plain badly made hardware, too. >
I'll second that on PNY mem sticks - got an 8Gb one and it's hopeless! Yer pays yer money and yer takes your choice! > --STeve Andre'
