Debian Sarge vs. USB

[Benjamin Scott]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, at 10:24am, jbd at codemeta.com wrote:
> The not loading as SCSI is what confused me, but I read something
> somewhere that said the new USB wasn't using SCSI anymore ...

  There is a new USB device driver in recent kernels that provides reduced
block device functionality.  I forget the proper term.  It came into being
because there are a lot of really cheap and really brain damaged USB "flash
drives" on the market that don't implement the spec fully/properly.  The
"regular" driver that made things appear as /dev/sda1 (or whatever) chokes
when it tries to talk to such broken hardware.  This alternate driver tries
to speak slowly and use small words to work around such issues.  The "real"
driver should still be available; it is not being phased out, IIRC.

  I forget the rest of the details, but this will hopefully provide some
insight.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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