[newbie] USB Memory Stick questions

[Edgars Smits]

I'm running 10 Official (kernel 2.6.3-7) and have a 256 MB memstick. 
Mandrake sees it and lets me read and write to it (fat32), but it seems 
to take forever - an 80MB copy from it took me over an hour.

1) whats am I doing wrong that it's taking so long? Is it the fat32 format?
2) I need to pass access to the stick to XP running inside a vmware host 
session on Mandrake (vmware 4.5). VMware says that "usb storage" has 
locked it up and so it can't use it. How do I "turn off" usb storage in 
Linux and is this something I can do on the fly - load and unload? It 
doesn't look to be listed as a service.

Any help appreciated
Ed Smits
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