Alan, Thanks for quick response and confirmation. Recent updates to Windows XP and Vista have further restricted the autorun/autoplay capabilities of USB hard drives. Now, when a user connects a USB hard drive they no longer get the option to run an executable (when specified in an autorun.inf file). However, if CD-ROM is connected/loaded the user is still allowed to run the exe specified in an autorun.inf file. Basically, it will be a better user experience if the user then doesn't have to open a folder, navigate to the executable and run it. Thanks again, Robert Murphy -----Original Message----- From: Alan Stern [mailto:stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:42 PM To: Murphy, Robert Cc: Greg KH; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kruger, Bill; Lloyd, Jay Subject: Re: CDROM and hard drive at the same time? On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Murphy, Robert wrote: > Alan, > > Back in September last year I had asked if it was possible to have the gadget driver present a hard drive and a CDROM drive at the same time (see below). I just wanted to check, is this answer still no? If so, are there any plans to modify the gadget driver to support multiple drives at the same time? No, it's still not possible and I have no plans to change it. Of course, if you or anyone else wants to make the necessary changes, they are free to do so. It shouldn't be terribly hard to do. Out of curiosity, why do you want this capability? Alan Stern -- 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
