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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ausdauer who wrote (24577)	1/19/2004 10:04:07 PM
From: Steve 667	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

"I cruised over to CompUSA and picked up the cheapest 128MB money can by, a SanDisk Cruzer Mini 128MB USB flash drive. I cleared my schedule and prepared for a swim........here were tons of messages about my USB drive and they weren't happy messages. Not wanting to throw away $50 I wasn't giving up yet. I booted back into Mandrake 9.1 and attempted to work with the USB drive on my own...and it was kernel panic after kernel panic. Scouring google I found that this was a common occurrence with the SanDisk Cruzer drives. "Great!" I cursed, "my USB drive is unusable!" ........Therefore, there is no reason, no, it should have been imperative that Mandrake tested every USB flash drive on the shelf, starting with the least expensive ones (everyone knows the SanDisk Cruzer is the cheapest widespread USB flash drive on the market). They should have, and still could, made sure that the drive either worked or that it was added to a posted list on the website product sheet stating which drives did not work so as to notify future users about potential incompatibilities with these USB drives....... osnews.com