Anyone know if there’s a purpose to this? I’m generally not in the habit of plugging in random unsolicited USB drives into my computer, but I gave it a shot here and found it to be 128MB.
Yes, you read that right, 1/8th of a GB. Can you even buy these anymore…?
That’s the right size for the roboRIO recovery file to work reliably from what I’ve heard. I wonder what it looks like in a partitioning tool, since it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s actually bigger and it just ships that way for that purpose.
I did check that. It’s truly 128MB as far as I can tell. I know the recovery tool is very picky on what drive it runs on, and is irrelevant for roborio2, so I have a hard time believing it’s specifically for that.
I found the same thing as you, the drive came formatted FAT32 so I assumed it was for some other purpose
Mine was FAT, not FAT32, and was completely blank.
Blank, same size… Didn’t know anyone makes 128mb drives anymore. Wondering how old these are and if WPI was cleaning out an old storage unit from the early to mid 2000s. I was really hoping it had a backup of the WPIlib API for offline use or something.
Now… I know what you’re wondering next. Where can I get more of these lovely gifts? You can’t! Also the only info we get about it is in the checklist… They didn’t even put the size here so we could know if this was right or not. Idk who that’s on, if it’s the KOP engineers or the donation supplier. Doesn’t seem fair to ask FIRST staff to put stuff on the drives if WPI just handed them a box of new empty flash drives, but they could’ve checked and asked what they were for maybe. I get it the season specific box needed stuff to go in it besides the Note game piece, but just tell us that’s it’s just a blank drive with no significance.
If it says WPI we assume it’s important for code.
I was not aware these were being sent out, but if it’s FAT32 formatted, it would make for decent (if somewhat small) external USB log file storage for the Rio. Plug it into a Rio and DataLogManager will automatically log to it instead of the Rio internal filesystem.
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