Reattach/redetect allways connected umass device - is it possible ?

Garrett Wollman wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Tue Mar 29 09:07:46 PST 2005


<<On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:44:30 -0700 (MST), Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> said:

> No they don't.  They umass device (the thing that the CF card plugs
> into) does.  However, there's no asynchonous event that happens when
> the CF (or whatever) card is inserted or removed. 

With newer memory devices, the card *is* the umass device.  Certainly
that's the case with Sony Memory Stick.  The "reader" is nothing more
than a hub.  (CF is unusual in that regard because it's really a
slimmed-down PC-CARD device.)

-GAWollman



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