[H-GEN] USB on Linux

[Christopher Biggs]

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"Frank Brand" <fbrand at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>>I strongly suspect that your USB-to-ATA bridge in fact presents the
>>usbmass interface.  So the Host OS sends SCSI commands to the bridge
>>device over the USB, and the bridge then sends ATA commmands to the drive.
>
>
> I think you are correct, but it still doesnt want to allocate a driver.
>

It is a regrettable fact that some USB devices require the host OS
driver to download a firmware program into the device, prior to normal
device operation.   I hope you don't have one of *those* crocks.

--cjb

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