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OT: Krazy USB Kameras (RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix)
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:41:14 -0500
- Subject: OT: Krazy USB Kameras (RE: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix)
[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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