"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> >> Pretty much any umass device works.
> >
> >Here's one that doesn't:
> >
> >EMPREX 128MB USB Flash Drive
> >
> >I picked this up at Frys and kinda expected it to work since it says
> >it's Linux compatible (which it is, at least on knoppix and ubuntu).
> >On my laptop (Dell Latitude CPi A 366XT; NetBSD-1.6.2; GENERIC_LAPTOP)
> >I get the following dmesg output:
> >
> >...
>
> Have you been able to try it on -current or any of the 3.0 candidates?  
> Given how much has been changed in the USB code since 1.6.2, I wouldn't 
> be at all surprised at a different outcome if you were to do so.  (Hmm 
> -- it appears that INSTALL kernels have the right code.  Try booting a 
> 3.0 INSTALL cd, exit to the shell, insert the drive, and see what happens.)

No I haven't but I will when 3.0 is released; looks like any day :)
In the interim, I'm wondering if there might be something I could
toss into the umass_quirks file to get a saner fictious disklabel;
like maybe dividing  1094 by 8:

# expr 1094 / 8
128

Is that a "quirkable" quirk? ;)

-Jeff