Re: [coldsync-hackers] Visor Edge USB cradle under FreeBSD 4.3

["Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>]

Yeah, there is definitely a timing issue.  I found an earlier post to the
mailing list describing how to launch coldsync from usbd.  That works like
a charm every time.  I suspect that to do it reliably without using usbd a
custom USB driver would have to be written.

I added to usbd.conf (before the "device "USB device"" line):

device "Handspring Visor"
	devname "ugen0"
	vendor  0x082d
	product 0x0100
	release 0x0100
	attach "su -l brian -c /usr/local/bin/coldsync"

Whoohoo!

- Brian


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Andrew Arensburger wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:56:39PM -0700, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:
> > Has anyone managed to get this to work reliably?  I read the threads on
> > this subject in the archives, but I don't think anyone ever reported a
> > success story with the Edge.
>
> 	No, you're right. Unfortunately, I don't have an Edge to test
> with, and the USB code was contributed; it's a mystery to me.
>
> > I am able to intermittantly get syncs to
> > work, but I have to try 8 or 10 times before I get a successful sync.  I
> > think this may be a bug in the USB drivers or some kind of timing issue.
> > I'm using coldsync 2.1.2.
>
> 	Interesting. I thought this was an all-or-nothing thing. The
> last time this came up, everything worked fine up until the point
> where ColdSync tried actually read()ing from the Edge. The read()
> would return a negative value, and ColdSync would abort.
> 	But obviously if you're succeeding one time out of ten, then
> it's not as deterministic as that (and harder to diagnose :-( ).
> 	If you could poke around and try to figure this out, there are
> a number of people who'd be grateful.
>
> --
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