boot loader question

Peter Hessler phessler at theapt.org
Mon Apr 4 12:45:04 PDT 2005


On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:50:17 +0800
Bill Hacker <wbh at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: 
: BTW - a USB-attached device *may* show up as '/dev/da(n)' - claiming to
: be a SCSI.  Go figure.....

The reason for that, is the USB bus presents it as a SCSI device.  But many
devices do the emulation improperly, so there are all sorts of nasty quirks and
workarounds in umass code.  :/ 





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