Re: ZIP Drives

[Will Newton <nospam [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk>]

> USB on linux is completely dodgy anyway, although that's not a linux
> problem: that's a problem in general. USB as a design is nice, in
> practice, it's awful: very few manufacturers implement the complete spec.,
> making a working USB system nigh on impossible to create. USB suffers from
> a hell of a lot of bugs inconsistencies, and I think it's unlikely that
> USB will *ever* be in a great state under linux. Hardware drivers, that's
> another large hurdle. I think a USB-Zip is *never* going to work with
> linux, I'm afraid. I'd chalk it up there with the Winmodems, Winprinters,
> etc.....

The trickiest thing is the way devices can be moved around yet still want
to be the same device. e.g. a mouse may move from number one to number two
on the bus, but you still want it to be your mouse, but in /dev/ it would
move from one device to another. It's very flexible like that, maybe too
flexible. (Plug in ten mice and three keyboards, how do you pick the ones
to use?)

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