On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Peter Rasmussen wrote: > OK, I know there is a lot of cr^H^Hno-good devices in the USB market.
That's putting it mildly! :-) > I do however, with this particular device remember that I at one time > had this device working with my Linux desktop, and I believe it was > early to middle 2.4'ish, but even then I remember that it was very > fickle. I could only mount it as 'msdos' (not vfat) and I could only do > one thing at a time (eg. removing old files or copying new files over) > before rebooting it, otherwise it would freeze. About like I saw (although the device I had could be mounted okay as vfat). I have trouble even imagining what sort of firmware peculiarities could cause these behaviors. It's as though they went out of their way to make the device hard-to-use. > On my PC at work with WinXP I can with no specific software remove and > copy files over without any problem, and I can see that it mounts is as > vfat because I can for example create files with upper/lower case. > > Should I investigate which 2.4 kernel it was that I could use it with? I > am not sure about what the binutils and other supporting software was, > but if you think it would be useful I'll see if I can find the right > combination again. I don't think there's much point. Any significant changes in the kernel since the 2.4 days are not likely to be undone, for any reason. Nor is the kernel likely to be changed in any major respect to make it behave more like Windows XP. Does the device work any better if you mount it read-only? Obviously this would defeat the purpose of maintaining the files on the device. But if it worked then at least we would have a small clue. > I have had enough bad experiences reg. contacting HW manufacturers about > Linux support of their devices, so I stopped doing that some time ago (I > started using Linux in 1993, and funny enough, it has never really > become easier to change their minds about starting to provide info or > support for something they didn't already, and they couldn't care less > about a potential consumer threating *not* to buy their product, sigh!). An all-too-common experience, unfortunately. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
