Subject: Re: Booting a USB key - 'Error B'
To: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
From: Dion van der Grijp <dvdgrijp@mbox3.singnet.com.sg>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/20/2004 06:11:57
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:13:29PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> > 
> > What I'd like to know is are there any USB keys that are known to work
> > properly with NetBSD as umass devices - specifically for installing a
> > NetBSD kernel and booting it?  I recall someone mentioning something
> > about problems with the Sony Micro Vault - but I forget the actual
> > nature of that problem.  Are there any "preferred" makes of USB key, or
> > alternatively, any one should stay away from?
> > 
> All should work, they are the same umass after all. A good sign is it
> "works with mac" and "needs no drivers". But some good devices are just
> good, they do not need to put essays on the box to convince people :-)
> 

Thanks - I was thinking along the same lines and picked up a Transcend
256MB JetFlash TS256MJF2A (USB 2.0) yesterday.  Haven't tried it out yet;
to follow shortly.

Dion van der Grijp