On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:44:10AM -0800, Penguin Lover Wes Gray squawked: > I've been researching getting my camera to work and I have a few questions. > I'm running udev and kernel 2.6.15.1. > > 1) For USB mass storage to work do I still need SCSI emulation or does udev > remove that requirement?
no. (deliberately ambiguous here to a either/or question) > > 2) If so do I still need to pass the kernel parameter hdc=ide-scsi? no. that's only for scsi emulation of IDE devices, like DVD/CDR drives for example. And to my knowledge it is no longer used nowadays as cdrecord et al started supporting ATAPI... > > 3) Should SCSI emulation be automatic with udev, or might I need to write > a rule for it? first. > > 4) If SCSI emulation is working will I alway see a line in dmesg about a > new SCSI device? Most howto's seem to suggest this but I want to > be sure. generally, no. You should see a line (or many lines, actually), after plugging in your camera, about a mass storage device found. > > 5) Any other things I ought to be looking at? > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_Mass_Storage_Device W -- Pintsize: The Borg were hot. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 110 days, 11:44 -- [email protected] mailing list
