On 7/5/11 2:23 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Stefan Dösinger <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Do we need full-fledged support for USB drivers for iTunes? I've been told in >> the past that all we need to do is properly report the new USB drive to >> iTunes >> when an iPod is attached, and can leave the USB mass storage handling to the >> Linuy OS. Of course "properly reporting" isn't as simple as creating a drive >> letter and setting its type to USB drive. >> >> I'm sorry to interrupt this nice project management discussion by throwing in >> a technical question :-) >> >> > > It used to work that way, but Dan Kegel's analysis of a recent version > of iTunes seems to indicate it now pulls in USBD.SYS. Maybe they > changed it or maybe they now do direct USB I/O in addition to going > through the mass storage interface? I have a Mac, and an iPod Touch. When I plug the iPod in, it doesn't show up as an external disk in the Finder. So on Mac, iTunes definitely does direct USB I/O. It's probably safe to assume it does on Windows, too.
Chip
