@Pirates
No, Lexar is out of the "game", the post on 911CD I referred to was a sequel to a few e-mails I had with wm_raim, wher he cleared that he was trying with TWO sticks, one a Lexar With Vid 05DCh and Pid 0080h and the other one the GXT with Vid 1516h Pid 8628h.
Sorry for the mix-up.
Usually the manufacturer of the chip has his own Vid/Pid, when he sells his product to the makers of the flash stick, he gives them an utility to change Vid/Pid to that of the stick manufacturer (if he has one), as a cascade, when the stick manufacturer actually tests the stick he has the option to insert the Vid/Pid (if any) of the Commercial company that has the "Brand" name and that actually sells the stick on the market.
Acquiring a Vid is relatively easy and cheap:
http://www.usb.org/developers/vendor/
while the Pid is an internal code, that in some cases is "meaningful", i.e. OtI sticks have Pid 2168 if they use chip 2168, Pid 6828 uses chip 6828, etc., but as soon as they developed various versions or "updates" of the chip, it agains loses significance, as an example, if I recall correctly, there is a "F" version of the 2168 and a "G" version with added features that cannot be distinguished by Pid.
Given the above it is easy to envision a scenario where Vid can mean:
1) Chip manufacturer (most of them)
2) Stick manufacturer (I think few of them that payed the $2000/$4,000.00 fee)
3) Commercial vendor of stick (I think still fewer that payed the $2000/$4,000.00 fee)
About speed, I cannot say, but the reference to 23x on the cnmemory.de site could be related to the 23.1 Speed on the skymedi site?
Speed of a flash device appears to be something "unmeasurable" without a standard, however the Ratio between 31.1
whatever for Read Access and 21.3
whatever for Write Access seems just not right
Check these:
http://www.anandtech...cle.aspx?i=2549
http://arstechnica.c...are/flash.ars/1
http://arstechnica.c...e/flash2005.ars
for a speed comparison and to see how much speed is influenced on size of what you are reading/writing.
In your case I think that we fall in point 1) above, where two different commercial companies, valgear with its brand GXT and cnmemory with it's own name offer on the market sticks that mantain the Vid of the Chip manufacturer (and use the chip manufacturer driver for Win98).
jaclaz
P.S.: Sorry if I am somehow hijacking this thread....
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