Lexar Secure Jumpdrives

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay
> 
> Win2k and XP will auto detect the drive, it is 98 that ...

Ok, that what I figured.


> The reason Linux found the drive is the filesystem is plain 
> old vfat (fat16).  Not real efficient, but  it works with ...

Well, I'd have thought Linux would detect it regardless of choice of
fs, afterall is should appear as a harddrive even if there is no
fs on it.


> but if you still want to get to the 
> drive easily under windows, leave part of it as fat16.  Same 
> goes for if you plan to boot to the drive.  You didn't give 
> it's size, so I can't be more precise.  If you plan to 
> encrypt w/ a Linux-based filesystem good luck.  There is a 
> ext2fs driver/program/reader/whatever for NT/2k/XP, but I've 
> not used it. YMMV.  It is likely to be beta...

I'm not too concerned about using it in windows. I would like
to keep that compatibility, but I'd like to be able to encrypt
it, not that I have anything of value I plan on putting on it.
It's a 128MB just like Jeremy's. I plan on just playing with it
to see what I want to use it for. Probably I'll wind up just
carrying around pix of my daughter, and the occasional work
documents. It's just a toy for now. I do think I'll try to boot
my desktop from it. I don't think the laptop will boot from it,
but the desktop just might.

> On the corrupt filesystem, just let MS run checkdisk at boot 
Well, I thought it might have something to do with using Linux
to access the disk first and creating a directory and placing
files on it. Which when I ran the secure disk software it so
nicely destroyed, so when they tell you to back up the data,
they really mean it. It would have been nice to get the message
*before* it trashed the disk (well technically it did, it didn't
trash the files until I ok'ed the message [only option was to ok]
that told me to back up my files). But that was one of the things
I was testing for anyway.

I'm wondering if it's possible to download the pictures from my 
camera directly onto the disk. Probably not, I think I have a USB
connector to connect to the camera, but that's to plug into a PC with.
It's an older digital. A 1.2MP Canon. Takes quite nice pix. Good lenses
and capturing. Excellent colors and resolution.


Thanks for you input Brian and Jeremy. 

Brian