On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:16:16 -0400, Meat Plow
put finger to keyboard and composed:

And your point is what? That if other USB devices and hard drives get
recognized as hardware with no file systems this should hold true for
everything you plug into a USB port?

I suppose that's the average assumption.

AIUI, this MS utility will retrieve information from any USB device,
file system or no file system, even without any drivers being
installed:

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB...VCView.x86.exe

The device also reports its maximum rated current demand.

- Franc Zabkar
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