Alicia da Conceicao wrote:

> >> This is a standard IDE harddrive drive, surely NetBSD must support
> >> it under its umass driver, right?  Don't all USB ***IDE***
> >> hard-drives share the same protocols/drivers?
> > I wish this was so.  There is a Mass Storage standard, but many
> > vendors have in their infinite wisdom decided to use some
> > proprietary protocol.
>
> I assumed there was a standard, since Win2000 automatically
> detected the USB drive and used it.
>
> So if my "LaCue" USB IDE drive enclosure does not follow the
> "Mass Storage standard", could someone please recommend a
> manufacturer and part number of a USB drive enclosure that
> does follow the "Mass Storage standard" (and hense works
> under NetBSD), and also has the following features:

Is it called LaCue or LaCie?  If it's the latter there is some hope.
There are versions of LaCie drives that actually follow a standard,
but they don't say so in the descriptors.

    -- Lennart