I bought this on May 1st 2003 for €35. It has 32MB storage, which appears as a standard disk device on Linux The timepiece is by Citizen and the USB 1.1 storage by Toshiba. It's supposed to be waterproof (DIN 8310). I think this is quite elegant as it's the same size as an ordinary watch, and no battery power is required for the USB subsystem. The only problem I noticed is that over time the USB connector gets a little grimey. The watch came with one vfat partition, but you can manipulate the disk as you want. I have multiple disk (32MB) images for various uses that don't have the same number of partitions. Therefore to be able to use partitions that are not present when the watch was registered with the system (i.e. after I dd a new image to /dev/sda), I need to do blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda Of course you could just reattach the watch, but the command is handier and useful to know. The handiest way to backup the watch is dd bs=32k if=/dev/sda | gzip > watch.gz
© May 30 2003