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Subject: Re: flash drives
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:15:47 -0500
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On 2/23/2017 7:15 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:

I have had a chance to fool around with flash drives on a relatively new
IBM I. I had never seen them before.

Looking them up at IBM the chilling text reads "not a reliable backup
media". Hmmmmm!

We tried copying a bunch of libraries onto one (RMS02) using SAVLIB and
we did one too many.

Now the drive is inaccessible.

Anyone else use these things?

Jerry

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Re: flash drives , Nathan Andelin
RE: flash drives , Pete Massiello - ML

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