On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 at 08:58, Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] > 4. USB is just interface, it can be external (more popular) or internal. > That's quite obvious. Less obvious is what should be reported by HMC. In > my humble opinion there is no big reason to report internal devices like > HDD, LAN NIC, etc. However there is big reason to report external > devices, because there is much bigger chance/risk that someone plugged > something. We know about phony keyboards, pendrive, etc. Interface is > irrelevant here, but the only external interface in HMC is USB - no > external SATA, no FireWire, no external PCIe, no ThunderBolt... > Thing is, there is no difference in what the HMC software (or firmware, even) sees between an internal and an external USB device. It can't see what you can see, i.e. the routing of the wire (if any) to another place inside the case, or to a jack that is accessible from outside. So it seems only reasonable to report on all USB devices it sees. If it reports only on what *should* be there, and *should* be internal, then obviously you may receive an incomplete report on what *is* there. Seems to me you received exactly what you needed: you were surprised at the reported presence of a device that you hadn't known about, you made inquiries, and got the answer. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
