November 7, 200718 yr This (specific) model is not listed on the wiki. Anyone know if it's compatible? Good brand, size, value. Thoughts. Kingston 1GB DataTraveler Mini-Migo Edition USB2.0 Flash Drive $12 Free shipping Buy.Com http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-1gb-datatraveler-mini-migo-edition-usb2-0-flash-drives-1-gb/q/loc/101/204134632.html
November 7, 200718 yr i dunno about your specific model, but to be safe i suggest you just go to best buy and pick up a micro cruzer 2gb, it's on sale for 19.99...came to like 21 after tax, thats what i'm using. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8281352&st=micro+cruzer&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1171672069828
November 7, 200718 yr Unfortunately, you cannot make any blanket statement about any flash drive unless it is the same motherboard runnning the same version of its bios. I had purchased a 1 Gig Sandisk MobileMate flash drive to use with my existing unRaid server. When I first tried using it it would not boot on the original Intel motherboard Tom had included in the MD1200 server I purchased from him almost a year earlier. The new Sandisk flash drive would boot just fine on my laptop, so I knew it was set up correctly. Apparently, the unRaid server's Intel motherboard's bios did not know how to deal with the larger flash drive's geometry. The Intel bios worked fine however with the much smaller 128 meg flash drive that had been originally suplied by Tom with version 1.0 of unRaid. Only after I re-partitioned and re-defined the geometry on my new 1 Gig Sandisk mobilemate would it boot on the Intel motherboard. (I had to use the advanced features of Linux fdisk to set the cylinders, heads, and sectors of my newer flash drive to those my bios could understand and boot from) The HP tool did not set the geometry to a set of values that would boot, I had to do it myself using fdisk. In general, most newer motherboards can boot from most flash drives if they are partitioned in a way they can understand. Once you get a flash drive over 500 meg in size it gets more interesting, since these bigger flash drives may not have been tested when the bios was being written. Joe L.
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