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Old 10-18-2013, 01:08 AM   #31
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Location: Chicagoland, U.S.A.
Device: Fire HDX7, Voyage, PW2, Touch 3G, Fire TV
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Originally Posted by ixtab View Post
Disclaimer: I don't own a PW2, so I can only speculate.

All Kindles so far have presented themselves as a simple HDD to the "outside", so they should not be treated any differently than a USB stick by the computer's OS (whatever that may be: Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD, ...). But they do recognize if they are connected as a USB drive (attached and mounted), or just plugged in (attached and not mounted).

AFAIK, there have never been complaints about previous Kindles with MacOS. So my guess is that the PW2 does something differently from previous versions. Maybe they don't reset their internal state correctly, so that they think they're "attached, but not mounted/mountable" on next connect.

I tend to think that it's the Kindle's fault, but it may also be Apple's.

Did anybody test how the PW2 behaves with Linux?
This overview makes the most sense to think; it is how I feel. Thanks for putting it into words.
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