Originally posted by: dkcc

Hi,
System: 8203-E4A(AIX 6100-05-01-1016) and 9114-275(AIX 5300-12-001-1016)

I can configure, tar -cf and tar -tf to a flash drive; but once I rmdev
and then physically remove the flash drive and reinsert the drive I
can no longer access the information on the flash drive.

Although I have an open PMR (36193) on this problem; I was wondering if
anyone else has encountered this problem?

Bye,
Dwight
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Originally posted by: dkcc

I am now able to write and retrieve the information from
a Kingston DTI/4GB flash drive. Still do not know just what
was causing the problem.
I recently purchase 6 new Kingston DTI/4GB flash drives.
I was surprised to find that these drives will allow me to
write and retrieve information from the flash drives while
the older DTI/4GB will not.
Called Kingston technical support and they said that
I had two different series of the same drive. They did
not tell me what was causing the problem; but they did
say that they did not warrant that these flash drive to
work on the IBM pSeries systems. However; they are going
to replace my 3 older flash drives with ones that should
work on my system. (The DTI/?GB series of flash drives
have been discountinued. I believe the replacement
series is called DTIG3/?GB. Have no idea if these will
work on the pSeries system.

Still having problems with the DTI/8GB flash drive.
AIX will cfgmgr the drive; but I can not write to
it. Get an I/O error.
Tried to reach the IBM support person working on my
PMR to tell him what has happened; but so far no response.

Bye,
Dwight
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Originally posted by: dkcc

Hi,
If anyone is interested I have learned from Kingston that their
was some kind of firmware or microcode problem with some of the DTI/4GB
flash drives. They did not tell me specifically what the problem was;
but on my 8203 and 9114 system it seems to do something to the flash
drive when a "rmdev" is done.

I have purchase a bunch of Kingston DTIG3/4GB drives. I have
only tested on of them so far; but it does work. So I guess this
is a good replacement for the older Kingston DTI/4GB, which is
not longer being made.

I have tested the Kingston flash drives using a native
USB port, an IBM 2-Port USB adapter and a Belkin 2-Port USB
adapter. The flash drives works for me on all these USB
ports.

Bye,
Dwight
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