On 5/15/07, David Fletcher <fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 15:44 15/05/2007, you wrote: >As to flash disks, which were mentioned, >mine have always worked perfectly - >if one didn't come up automatically I'd put it down to a temporary glitch. >I certainly wouldn't change distributions because of that. >That seems to me a bit like selling a house because a bulb has gone. Well, I like my backups. Backups are more than nice, they're essential. But they're no damn good to anybody if they can't be copied off the machine onto some sort of media that can be carried off site. These days, for my purposes, that media is a USB flash drive. Several in fact. The first one stays next to the computer. The second gets carried around with me in my briefcase. The third lives in my car glove box. Occasionally (because the Nokia 6230i only appears to support USB1.0 so it's rather slow) I put a copy onto the flash card buried in my mobile phone. And sometimes I'll put a copy on one of the servers at the office. I like my backups. So if I can't easily and very reliably take copies of my backups, sorry Fedora but that's a show stopper. Dave
The thing is though, plug and play USB has worked all through FC6 -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
