Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until relatively recently.
They didn't work in 98 first edition, nor in NT4 or Win2000 - again, from memory, which could be faulty.
In Win2k, Micro$oft finally got up to speed and most flash drives will work with it, but XP is better.
Fair enough. Out of curiosity - do they work in W2K out of the box, or require some update? I ask because I'm considering W2K as a VM.
Anne
Flash support under qemu seems to be about the same as CD-ROM support. That is, you can access a device present at start up but it's not swappable. Given:
[dave@bend ~]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 154b:0005 PNY Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
you can attach the device to a W2K qemu session by starting qemu with something like:
qemu -usb -usbdevice tablet -hda w2k.img -usbdevice host:001.002 -m 256 -localtime &
I tried swapping two different 1GB thumb drives and the content of the drive wasn't visible after the swap.
If you decide to go the qemu route for a VM with W2K, I wrote about the problems I ran into on my blog at:
http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=29
Getting a basic W2K VM working was fairly easy but getting it fully updated was a real pain. I still have a couple of MS updates that I can't apply since W2K stops working if I do.
Cheers, Dave