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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: OT: Krazy USB Kameras (RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix)
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:41:14 -0500
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[snip]
> 
> NOTE: A digital camera shows up as an USB drive, i.e. a DOS 
> drive -> e.g. /cygdrive/<next free letter> - and is available 
> so long as the camera stays ON (it eventually WILL go OFF 
> after last use, just as your screen blanker! Depending on how 
> you've set it or use it.)
> 

A USB Mass Storage Device that does this is poorly designed at best, and
probably not compliant with the USB specification.  I can't recall a
situation where a device is allowed to just "disappear" once plugged in and
enumerated without the user doing something (a bus-powered device anyway).
You should see if there is a firmware upgrade available for it.

Then again, I know firsthand that Microsoft had USB Mass Storage pretty
wildly wrong as late as the release of XP SP...2 I think, maybe 1, so who
knows, could be MS's fault.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle


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