On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:08:35 -0400, JW put finger to
keyboard and composed:

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:26:59 +1000 Franc Zabkar
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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.

Nice little program, hard to believe it was written by MS.

Maybe it was too good. MS appears to have removed it from their site.
In fact it's very hard to find it anywhere ... except on my web space.

For some reason the USB vendor IDs are encoded within the EXE file.
I've managed to decipher the code and have published the list he

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB...ew_vid_nam.txt



- Franc Zabkar
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