On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:48:37AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > Well, I seem to remember a reasonably lengthy thread about this, in > which it turned out the best solution was to install the manufacturer's > firmware upgrade. For example: > > https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/pipermail/usb-storage/2008-December/004313.html > > But I could easily be mixing up two different sorts of device; I can't > keep these things straight. Right, so that thread basically says (confusingly), that there are three categories of device, that have two categories of behavior. Behavior A If it doesn't get attached as usb-storage auto-switches to modem Behavior B Will only "be" usb-storage until ejected In the following 3 categories. Category 1 - Original version of device Behavior A, NON-upgradable firmware. The only way to make this work is to make usb-storage ignore the device Category 2 - Non-original version of device, older firmware Behavior A, but you can upgrade firmware to get behavior B Category 3 - Non-original version of device, newer firmware Behavior B This person clearly doesn't have A, or it the behavior change he would have seen when we pulled the IGNORE_DEVICE flag was "oh, crap, now it's a mass-storage and I can't use my modem" - we threw these users to the dogs, because they're the minority. This person doesn't seem to be in category 2 because again, when we pulled the flag they would have gone from "modem device" to "usb-storage" device. The oppositie of waht they reporting. This person can't be in category 3 because they would have gone from a non-working device to a usb-storage device. At least, that's my understanding of all this. If I've missed something, let me know. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@xxxxxxxx Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
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