Digital Photo Keychains for Linux

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you know all those trendy Digital Photo Keychains?
> These cute and tiny digital frames that are sold for 49-79 NIS and are
> charged and fed by photos from a PC through USB?
> 
> Well, I've always was sure that they use the standard flash disk
> protocol with the computer, like all the other players (MP3, MP4, etc.)
> and that their disk looks as a drive for your OS and you can just manage
> the files there (copy/rename/remove/etc.) just like any other directory
> or folder.
> 
> I was amazed to find out that these devices require a special software
> to manage them.
> 
> It means that they don't work with Linux, most of them don't work with
> MAC too, and that even the thousands software packages which were
> developed for Windows (!) can't access them (because they are not like
> "drives" with normal "files", but just a black box which only the user
> can access and only through the special software).
> 
> Since there are hundreds of models, I can't believe that all of them
> use this crazy was of working and that none uses the standard flash
> disk protocol.
> 
> I'll be glad to hear models that use the standard protocol (like all of
> the MP3, MP4, disk-on-key, etc.).

Any idea what it would take to reflash one of those with a nicer
firmware?

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