Hi, Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains? These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB?
Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk protocol with the computer, like all the other players (MP3, MP4, etc.) and that their disk looks as a drive for your OS and you can just manage the files there (copy/rename/remove/etc.) just like any other directory or folder. I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software to manage them. It means that they don't work with Linux, most of them don't work with MAC too, and that even the thousands software packages which were developed for Windows (!) can't access them (because they are not like "drives" with normal "files", but just a black box which only the user can access and only through the special software). Since there are hundreds of models, I can't believe that all of them use this crazy was of working and that none uses the standard flash disk protocol. I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.). Thanks, -- Eli Marmor mar...@netmask.it CEO, Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
