We have an application where the client will not allow us to connect the mobile devices on the network due to security concerns (no wi-fi, nor network via MDC, etc.). We assumed the devices would play nicely with USB Mass Storage mode, since the option is implemented. We planned to use basic file transfer with the drive that then appears to windows.
However, the units do no work well with this.
Their connectivity as mass storage devices seems patchy - inserting the device to the cradle (when attached to PC) sometimes does not register as a USB  mass-storage drive at all. Sometime it does, but removing the device does not canel the connection, leaving the handheld unit still unable to access its SD card (since it still seems to think it is connected and that device is 'owned' by the PC as mass storage).
We are ejecting the unit using software calls on the PC side when we complete our file-transfer 'comms', but this seems to make no difference.
 
We have loaded the hotfix that makes USB mass storage work (without it, it basically just doesn't work at all!).
 
Is there anything else that can be done to get this very basic functionality working reliably?
 
Regards,
Keith