My understanding( perhaps faulty) is that the mini USB cable plugged into the edge and the other end of the usb cable plugged into a computer should cause the edge to present itself as a USB storage device to the computer, right?

I've tried plugging the edge into a Linux system and the edge acts as if a connection is established (usb connection icon appears at the top of the screen), on the Linux box the /var/log/messages shows interaction between the two (no obvious errors to me), but I get no mounted device or storage on the linux box. (I have a lot of USB hard drives and media storage adapters and they plug and play on this without any issue.)

I've tried this with and without the 32G SDHC card mounted in the edge with no change in results. This is what I see in /var/log/messages . . .

Apr 4 00:57:22 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: scsi19 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0bb4, idProduct=0c02
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: Product: Android
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Android
Apr 4 00:57:23 wolverine kernel: usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 0123456789ABCDEF
Apr 4 00:57:24 wolverine kernel: scsi 19:0:0:0: Direct-Access Android File-Stor Gadg etff PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Apr 4 00:57:24 wolverine kernel: sd 19:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
Apr 4 00:57:24 wolverine kernel: sd 19:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
Apr 4 00:57:24 wolverine kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete



This is openSuse 11.1. So, it's not that old.
Linux wolverine 2.6.27.45-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-02-22 16:49:47 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux