Anne Wilson <cannewilson at 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 at 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 -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce