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RE: using a USB flash mem device
On 30 September 2007 22:34, Tom Hall wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:46:42PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>> Check under the Disk Management snap-in in Windows (under Administrator
>> Tools, Computer Management). If it shows up there, you should be able
>> to set a drive letter. If not, you may be able to access it using
>> /dev/sdXX syntax. See
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html> for guidance on
>> how to map the information you see here into /dev/sdXX form.
>>
>
> Nope. Ittyty's not there. I did find it under "Portable Devices" but not
under
> Disk Management. It's at "Location 0" and has a "device instance ID" of
> USB\VID_0781&PID_7460\0002FA821BB583890002FA821BB14592
>
> I had to get Windows Media 10 in order to get Media Transfer Protocol
> (MTP - how clever of MS) capability before it would show up in explorer at
> all.
FTR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
"By design, MTP devices cannot be "mounted" as a mass storage drive on Windows
or Macintosh. An MTP device (like a PTP device) is not to be considered a file
system in the traditional sense. Additional confusion is created by the fact
that Windows Explorer treats MTP devices somewhat like a file system, except
without an assigned drive letter, making it impossible for other applications
to access the data directly."
> I found an mtplib project on sourceforge but was hoping cygwin wouldn't need
> something like this.
Looks like it does.
> I guess I'll have to drag icons around for a while - what a drag.
'fraid so.
cheers,
DaveK
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