I have a device whose instructions indicate it will be ID'd as a "mass storage device" by Windows, but it isn't recognized by my kernel USB drivers (other usb_storage devices work fine, so I don't think it's my drivers that are at fault).

I suspect the device is slightly non-compliant. But I'm hoping that maybe, if I could hint the hotplug module to use usb_storage on it, that it might work anyway.

Is there a tool for nudging USB driver hotplugging choices? I've got USB View, but that just tells you what it did, it doesn't let you adjust anything.

Or else, where's the best place to find info on normalizing ill-behaved USB storage devices?