[jp] Cannot use the program

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton
<chris at vindaloo.com> wrote:
> USB is a pain in the neck. The way it's implemented on the palm is
> doubly so. Am I correct in assuming that the reason that newer Palms
> present a device on the USB bus at plug in time rather than hotsync
> time is to allow them to charge from your computer. E.g. you have to
> negotiate for power on the USB bus and the only way to do that to
> present a device the moment the cable is plugged in?

 No, they attempt to mount a pseudo-filesystem (i.e. NVFS/VFS) using
those endpoints. They term this "Drive Mode" and you can read more
about it here:

http://kb.palmone.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=PalmSupportKB,ts=Palm_External2001,case=obj(14365)

But they don't give you a choice whether to use it that way or not.
You plug it in and it just does it.

Now, there MAY be a way we can send a few bytes across the bus to it
to tell it to drop out of Drive Mode and switch to a mode that allows
HotSync to function properly, but I haven't poked at it enough (and
frankly, I don't have a device with this capability, thankfully).