Hey, On 07/05/2011 10:49 AM, Charles Davis wrote: > On 7/5/11 2:23 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesin...@gmx.at> >> wrote: >>> Do we need full-fledged support for USB drivers for iTunes? I've been told >>> in >>> the past that all we need to do is properly report the new USB drive to >>> iTunes >>> when an iPod is attached, and can leave the USB mass storage handling to the >>> Linuy OS. Of course "properly reporting" isn't as simple as creating a drive >>> letter and setting its type to USB drive. >>> >>> I'm sorry to interrupt this nice project management discussion by throwing >>> in >>> a technical question :-) >>> >>> >> It used to work that way, but Dan Kegel's analysis of a recent version >> of iTunes seems to indicate it now pulls in USBD.SYS. Maybe they >> changed it or maybe they now do direct USB I/O in addition to going >> through the mass storage interface? > I have a Mac, and an iPod Touch. When I plug the iPod in, it doesn't > show up as an external disk in the Finder. So on Mac, iTunes definitely > does direct USB I/O. It's probably safe to assume it does on Windows, too. There are 2 ways really. Old ipods used usb mass storage which I had working at 1 point, but in a hacky way. ipod touch and iphone need direct usb, which never worked.
~Maarten
