Re: external harddrives w/ backup button

Nathan Coulson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:21 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/17/2011 09:09 PM, Nathan Coulson wrote:
>
>>
>> as far as xev is concerned, there is no event when I touch that button
>> (compounded by the fact that it does not appear under
>> /proc/bus/input/device)
>>
>>
>>
>
> What brand of drive is it? If Maxtor One Touch, then you need a special
> module for it.
>
> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/USB_STORAGE_ONETOUCH.html
>
> Simple HID, I suppose if that's not it, it would give you enough to go
> on to make it work, that is if it is important enough to mess with.
>
> -- DJ Lucas

excellent, all I needed, to get my bearings.  couple weeks of google
did not give me a hint where to look, if it was a input device, a
driver, or something else.


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