--- Mukund Deshmukh wrote:

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I was curious to know if USB devices can have

their own drivers embedded

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so that when they plug into any OS on any platform

they can pass on the

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drivers to the system.

Yes, technically possible. The default behavior of USB device will be mass storage device. The PC will read and install the driver. Once PC runs the driver, the USB device will activate its native function. No, Commercially it will add up cost and nothing else. If all the driver can be given on Rs. 5 CD, why add MSD and increase cost of USB device.

I have yet to see any USB device that did not run automatically on a Mac desktop. Either the Mac OS comes loaded with every conceivable driver, or else the USB devices have some sort of self loading drivers anyway. Or is there some other possibility?

Actually, this default behaviour is a little irritating. As Mukund says, the default behaviour should be that of a mass storage device. However, what actually happens for many devices such as cameras, the default application (say for instance iPhoto in the case of a camera) starts up and the file navigator (Finder) does not show the device loaded at all (which is the default behaviour for ordinary mass storage devices).

Vickram

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