Re: external harddrives w/ backup button

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:12 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 02:52 PM, Nathan Coulson wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Coulson<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> It's a rocketfish external enclosure
>>
>> although, I am scared of the fact that when I hook it up via usb, as
>> well as esata that it shows up as two block devices...
>>
>
> Wow! I don't think I'd recommend testing simultaneous mounts or even
> device reads for that matter...and blacklist that usb mass storage device.
>
> -- DJ Lucas

but think of the throughput, writing via usb and esata at once!

(sadly, It does not show up under usb, when esata's plugged in.  I
thought it shown both before, [ugly reset msg in dmesg though])

also, the onetouch backup button, does not seem to work with the
maxtor driver.  at least I know now.


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