Thanks Noam. Can you try to find the name of the product, or at least the name of the project?
Noam Rathaus wrote: > > Hi, > > I investigated one of them awhile ago there was a Open Source project > to communicate with them, I remember it was very product specific, but > it worked with my Borders keychain - which I don't know the actual > product name. > > 2009/9/24 Ori Idan <[email protected]>: > > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains? > >> > These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are > >> > charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB? > >> > > >> > Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk > >> > protocol with the computer, like all the other players (MP3, MP4, etc.) > >> > and that their disk looks as a drive for your OS and you can just manage > >> > the files there (copy/rename/remove/etc.) just like any other directory > >> > or folder. > >> > > >> > I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software > >> > to manage them. > >> > > >> > It means that they don't work with Linux, most of them don't work with > >> > MAC too, and that even the thousands software packages which were > >> > developed for Windows (!) can't access them (because they are not like > >> > "drives" with normal "files", but just a black box which only the user > >> > can access and only through the special software). > >> > > >> > Since there are hundreds of models, I can't believe that all of them > >> > use this crazy was of working and that none uses the standard flash > >> > disk protocol. > >> > > >> > I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of > >> > the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.). > >> > >> Any idea what it would take to reflash one of those with a nicer > >> firmware? > >> > > > > To rewrite the firmware one must know the processor used there, it's memory > > map, amount of memory, peripheral addresses etc. > > I don't think it's easy to do. > > > > -- > > Ori Idan -- Eli Marmor [email protected] CEO, Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
