Hey, I sent a message off and while the reply wasn't totally unexpected, it wasn't totally bad, either.
When I drill down through all the BSD speak, what it boiled down to was "if I had a player I might be able to figure out how to write a driver for it". That said, I doubt either of us are willing to part with or spring for players for any of these guys.
So, that's the bad part. Good part is I know these folks and they really can't resist a challenge. So while there is not a solution forthcoming today, I wouldn't be surprised if someone sent me a message in the near future asking if something works.
As the Mac sees it and can read it, but then fails to copy info, it sounds like either the chip isn't all there or (more likely) the driver OS X has decided this thing needs isn't quite right. Maybe I'll ask again from the standpoint of "how do I change which driver loads for a given device" rather than "how do I get a udev rule like thing under BSD?"
I haven't forgotten you, just there was no internet connection on the Wisconsin River this past week. ;-)
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