[Pc_Support] Seagate ST650211CF (ST1 5GB CFlash) 1" Hard Drive

[Bryan J. Smith]

Seagate's 1" hard drive in 50-pin CFlash Type II format, available from
Computer Geeks for $99:  
  http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST650211CF&cat=FLM  

I picked up one of these for some stuff I'm doing at work.  Sadly
enough, it doesn't work well with some of my XP Pro and XP Embedded
systems.  I tried an assortment of hardware, and it's clear it's more of
an OS support issue -- loading the HP CFlash software for Windows seem
to fix it on some of the hardware.

But I came home and popped the sucker into my $18 Floppy+9-in-1 reader
drive on my Linux system and _bam_!  Not only did a cool looking hard
drive with USB symbol icon labeled "5.0G Removable Media" pop up on my
GNOME 2.8 desktop (Fedora Core 3/x86-64), but an empty window with
"4.6GiB available" as well.

It is a fat32 filesystem (which can be confirmed a number of ways in
Linux -- both GUI and CLI), the device was auto-assigned /dev/sdc (no
partitions -- just one partition).  I can just right click / umount on
the icon on the desktop to safely remove the device (without having to
go through any multiple menus like Windows makes me from the taskbar).
[ And as always, eject/umount from the command-line do the same too. ]


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