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Bug#731016: Can't mount external USB HD Asus AN300



On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:24 +0100, Josua Dietze wrote:
> Am 04.12.2013 15:07, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> >> Le mercredi, 4 décembre 2013, 11.01:14 Josua Dietze a écrit :
> >>> It's clear now that usb_modeswitch can't do anything here.
> >
> > I don't see that at all.  There could be some magic file on the virtual
> > CD-ROM that Windows already knows how to interpret.  (I don't know what
> > the point of that would be!)
> 
> That is highly unlikely. After all, there are only two possibilities:
> 
> 1. Windows accesses the main drive device in a generic (built-in) way. If this 
> included some sort of 'magic' file, then that way of access would be known - 
> if not documented - by now. It's not likely that the Asus drive would be the 
> only device where this special generic access method applied.
[...]

Yes, I would expect so.  I had a quick look on MSDN and didn't find
anything like this.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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