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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:49:58 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB to IDE converter
Message-ID:  <20020408094958.GD54610@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200204080234.TAA19664@mina.soco.agilent.com>
References:  <200204080234.TAA19664@mina.soco.agilent.com>

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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:34:27PM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just got one of these hoping that it would work under FreeBSD but so
> > far can't make it work:
> 
>      Does it need drivers for Win2K or WinXP (drivers for Win98 and
> below are OK)?  If it needs drivers for Win2K or XP, then the device may
> not be fully USB-mass-storage compliant, which means that it'll be
> difficult (if not impossible) to get it working with FreeBSD (someone
> may have to write a driver for it).  If it doesn't need drivers, then
> I'm at a loss as to suggest what to do next, except to upgrade to the
> latest FreeBSD-STABLE.

USB hasn't changed much in -stable between 4.4 and now.  We've got a lot
of new usb code in -current though, and I'm hoping to have the bugs
ironed out before 4.6.

Joe

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