On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:25:31PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jonas Schwertfeger wrote: > > > On 04/09/2010 07:14 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > Someone should probably tell Neil Perng at Genesys Logic. Maybe Dinh > > > Nguyen (from the launchpad entry) can provide an email address or > > > forward this thread on? > > > > Why are we sure that my drive has a chip by Genesys Logic in it at all? > > I know that there are disks out there with that chip and that there > > are issues with it, but how did we conclude that the Buffalo drive has > > the same chip in it? Is there a way for me to verify what chip is used > > without opening the case? > > Now that you mention it, we don't know what sort of chip you have. > Only that the vendor ID is 0x0411 (MelCo., Inc.) and the product ID is > 0x0184. > > I don't know of any way to find out what sort of chip it is without > opening the case (except perhaps by asking the manufacturer). I've just opened the case on my Buffalo hard drive, and the circuit just says Buffalo. There's an ARM chip and a winbond chip, but not much else to identify it. I'll ask around the USB-IF PIL lab to try and get a company contact. Sarah Sharp p.s. The Buffalo USB3 drive was much easier to open than the Dane-Elec drive (and the hard drive and board was actually secured, unlike the other drive). There's a screw on the top, and if you pry off the stickers on the bottom, there's some plastic clips holding the case together. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
