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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:51:09 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB to IDE converter
Message-ID:  <20020408095109.GE54610@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020408094958.GD54610@genius.tao.org.uk>
References:  <200204080234.TAA19664@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20020408094958.GD54610@genius.tao.org.uk>

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:49:58AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 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.

I forgot to add, there's a patch set against -stable at
http://www.josef-k.net/misc.  Use the latest one.

Joe

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