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Questions about writing to flash drives
Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
Most of the CDs have been sold "at" the annual reunion, usually about 20-25 each year. However, I have sold a few via mail, which is no problem with the CDs. Over the past 10 years, I've mailed about 25 of them, and never had a problem.... but it does require we increase the price to $15 each. Mailing the USB sticks is another complication I hadn't taken into account... and it would probably mean a further increase in cost. I hadn't thought much about the possibility of a user accidentally erasing the USB stick... but that would really be a problem. Before I ralized how long it would take to record all those html files to the stick, I just imagined "correcting" an erased USB stick by simply re-recording the data to it from my laptop at the next reunion. However, now I see that really isn't practical. The more I know about what is required, the more I'm thinking I've been looking at this wrong. The main pressure to go to a flash drive was to enable the use of these html files, which are essentially a (huge) family tree with photographs. I'm beginning to think we'd be better served by sticking with the use of the CD for the PDF files, and simply giving a link to the web page for accessing the html files with photographs. I can still produce a few copies on flash drives for any relatives who for whatever reason, don't have web access or only low speed web access. I really appreciate all the comments and suggestions... this has been a good learning experience for me. Charlie The "dd" program is available for Windows, and the syntax to identify disks is a bit different than Linux. Still, I've used this a lot for various projects. The only real bug it had, was not detecting where the end of a USB flash key was. And thus, the need to explicitly give block_size and count for such cases. http://www.chrysocome.net/dd http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.6beta3.zip That command is also helpful, if you ever need to back up a hard drive with damaged file systems. Before you start using tools to "repair" the disk. What that command doesn't handle, is bad_blocks that return a CRC error. In those cases, a special version called dd_rescue is used instead. So there is a better program for emergencies. The "dd" source quoted above, is for media where the device has good blocks on it. Paul |
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