USB storage "dongles" and umass driver

[Guy Van Sanden]

Hi Tom

As far as I know, if the device is USB mass storage, it is generic.
That protocol is just SCSI over USB, so should be as generic as SCSI
once was.

On Linux, all USB-mass storage devices (including digicams) are
supported using only one driver, I guess it should be the same on
FreeBSD.

If you plug it in, try cdrecord -scanbus to see if it is connected.

Good luck

Guy

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:13, Tom Parquette wrote:
> Hi.
> I was looking at the Sunday ads and I found a LEXAR JumpDrive at a price 
> that I could swallow.
> I looked at umass and it talks about supporting a couple of models of 
> SanDisk "dongles" in flash mode.
> I do not know too much about these.  If my terms are incorrect, please 
> correct me.
> 
> The question I have is, are these devices generic enough that other 
> manufacturer's devices will work with the umass driver?
> Something like this would be nice for transporting a few things to and 
> from work.  e.g. Installing Lotus Notes under wine on my FreeBSD machine 
> and using one of these USB devices for carrying my Notes ID file and 
> personal address book.
> 
> Comments/insights?
> Thanks.
> 
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