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From: james on 8 Apr 2008 00:45 notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote in news:G1iKj.1191$Ul.904(a)fe097.usenetserver.com: > I copy a firefox bookmarks.html file to a 4G vfat flash drive and take > it to my slack 12 box for viewing/copying. I mount the flash drive no > problem. I open the file with firefox. 200+ links have vanished and > I have 2-4 links showing, one with 20 lines of the first paragraph of > text from the 2nd link web page. > [snip] Isn't there a 2Gig limit on the original flash specification? ISTR that drives over 2Gig in size take some special driver/hardware/thingy. Perhaps you're running into that? Sorry to be so vague. -- The email address, above, is most certainly munged. Perhaps you might reply to the newsgroup, instead? Thanks!
From: Michael Black on 8 Apr 2008 01:48 On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, james wrote: > notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote in > news:G1iKj.1191$Ul.904(a)fe097.usenetserver.com: > >> I copy a firefox bookmarks.html file to a 4G vfat flash drive and take >> it to my slack 12 box for viewing/copying. I mount the flash drive no >> problem. I open the file with firefox. 200+ links have vanished and >> I have 2-4 links showing, one with 20 lines of the first paragraph of >> text from the 2nd link web page. >> > [snip] > > Isn't there a 2Gig limit on the original flash specification? ISTR that > drives over 2Gig in size take some special driver/hardware/thingy. Perhaps > you're running into that? > If there's a limit, it's related to filesystem (and I thought there was something about vfat). I was lucky and scored a 4gig USB flash drive last week, and it works fine. It as vfat, and mounted fine (but I never transferred data to it to test things), and I reformated it for ext2 and it's mounting fine. Michael
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 8 Apr 2008 02:22 james <mentor(a)arisia.invalid> wrote: > Isn't there a 2Gig limit on the original flash specification? ISTR that > drives over 2Gig in size take some special driver/hardware/thingy. Maybe you are thinking about SD cards (secure digital). The first SD card specification has a limit of 2 GB. With the SDHC specification you can have bigger cards. An SDHC reader/writer is capable to handle both SD cards and SDHC cards, but an SD reader/writer is not capable to handle SDHC cards. SD and SDHC cards are used in many digital cameras. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 8 Apr 2008 02:24 notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote: > I copy a firefox bookmarks.html file to a 4G vfat flash drive and take it to > my slack 12 box for viewing/copying. I mount the flash drive no problem. I > open the file with firefox. 200+ links have vanished and I have 2-4 links > showing, one with 20 lines of the first paragraph of text from the > 2nd link web page. In this case I would try to compare the broken copy with the working original file. Do the files have the same size? Do they have the same md5sum? If the files differ, what is the difference? regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Helmut Hullen on 8 Apr 2008 02:23
Hallo, notbob, Du meintest am 07.04.08: > I copy a firefox bookmarks.html file to a 4G vfat flash drive and > take it to my slack 12 box for viewing/copying. I mount the flash > drive no problem. I open the file with firefox. 200+ links have > vanished and I have 2-4 links showing, one with 20 lines of the first > paragraph of text from the 2nd link web page. vfat has a 2 GByte limit per partition. And there are faked sticks: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Manipulierte-USB-Sticks-Das-Schwarzer-Peter-Spiel--/meldung/101885 Viele Gruesse Helmut "Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". |