From: Jeff Cleverley (jeff_cleverley@agilent.com)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 13:22:00 EST
Greetings,
I'd like to thank the following people for their replies:
Bill Hassell
Vidal Cazarez
Jeff Lightner
Steve Illgen
Galen Scalone
It sounds like I can't get there from here, but half the fun is trying
:-) I also neglected to include the fact that I did try the insf -e
command on the box. It obviously did not have the desired effect.
Below is Bill response followed by the original post.
Bill Hassell wrote:
>Very doubtful this will ever work. While USB is ubiquitous in the PC
>world, only simple peripherals like a mouse or keyboard have drivers
>in HP-UX. A memory stick looks simple enough but in reality, it is
>a disk device with a filesystem (Windows-only). So without a special
>device file driver and a subsystem to handle a DOS/Windows filesystem,
>the memory stick will just be an unknown USB device.
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>An odd situation came up where we may have to use one of the USB memory
>sticks (jump drive, flash drive, whatever) to transfer data between a
>hpux 11.00 C3000 and a linux box running RHEW. I have one of these
>drives plugged into my C3000 and it shows up in an ioscan -fn command as:
>
>usbdev 0 10/0/14/2.1.3 usbd CLAIMED DEVICE USB Device
>
>I'm trying to create a device file for this and then had planned on
>trying to assign it to the device path. I can't find a pattern that
>should go to the minor number. I was going to use the same major as
>/dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk. I looked at /dev/hid/* for the other items
>(keyboard and mouse) and don't see any connection between their path and
>the minor number
>
>Does anyone know how to do this or have information on if you can get
>this to work or not?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
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