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. :/