Re: USB Mass Storage

[Douglas McNaught]

SN <talk2sumit@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If I use a USB connected hard-disk (IDE), which device driver would I
> be using? I understand it is recognized as a SCSI disk. So, is it the
> SCSI driver? Or would the IDE driver be used?

It would be the SCSI layer running on top of the USB drivers.  No IDE
involved on the PC side (obviously the USB enclosure has an IDE
controller, but it's driven by the enclsure firmware, not Linux).

-Doug
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