On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:55:24 +0000 (UTC)
christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

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> In article <20070928020839.1acf6daf@berkshire.machshav.com>,
> Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> >On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:28:52 +0200
> >Anders Hjalmarsson <hjalmar@hjalmar.to> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 
> >> My Ericsson phone is similar, I get the 'drive offline' message,
> >> but I can mount it without problems anyway.
> >> Part of dmesg:
> >> 
> >> umass0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 8
> >> umass0: Sony Ericsson Sony Ericsson K750, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 5
> >> umass0: using ATAPI over Bulk-Only
> >> atapibus1 at umass0: 2 targets
> >> sd0 at atapibus1 drive 0: <Sony Eri, Memory Stick, 0000> disk
> >> removable sd0: drive offline
> >> sd0: fabricating a geometry
> >> 
> >The "drive offline" seems to be a common transient; I get that with
> >my iPod nano, too, but it always mounts immediately.
> 
> We should also add a driver so that it can charge. It is pretty
> simple.
> 
Hmm -- could you explain?  I've never had any trouble charging my iPod,
since it goes online immediately.  However, I can't charge my
Palmpilot, since NetBSD only recognizes it when I start a hotsync
operation, causing uvisor0 to appear.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb