[BozemanLUG] How the Linux kernel sees the MagicJack

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

At the tail end of the meeting David had me plug my MagicJack into a USB port of a Linux box.  Here's the kernel output:

Vendor: YMAX      Model: MagicJack         Rev: 2.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 36352 512-byte hdwr sectors (19 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 36352 512-byte hdwr sectors (19 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  Vendor: YMAX      Model: MagicJack         Rev: 2.00
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
sr 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5

It appears to be a small amount of writable storage presented as /dev/sdb (19MB) for data (contacts, call log, ad cache perhaps)... and then a CD image for the MagicJack software.  It doesn't appear that Linux sees any of the other hardware in the device... but it is possible that there is an independent, embedded device that communicates with the software via disk data?!?  Any comments?

TYL,
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