[Gllug] emulating a pendrive

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Tue, October 13, 2009 14:28, Richard Jones wrote:
> A bit of further investigation reveals there are special USB "data
> transfer cables" available that let you connect two USB hosts
> together:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=usb+data+transfer+cable
>
> I wonder how they work?  Presumably they must have some bit of
> hardware in the middle that looks like a slave to both ends and
> probably does a fair bit of translation work.
>
> Note that some the cables I found come with _Windows_ drivers, and
> some claimed not to need drivers at all (unclear if that refers just
> to one end or to both ends).  You should check this issue out before
> purchasing though.
>
> Rich.
>
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I am not sure if that would work. The dvd player scans the directory of
the storage device, letting you browse the tracks, then play whichever on
you want. Presumably the windows driver is to allow building of the
directory and then serving requests for a particular file. Also I am
guessing that the cables without drivers only allow you to copy one file
at a time from host to host. Since the dvd player doesn't actually copy
the files it might not work. Still it would be interesting to get hold of
one of these cables and see if it was hackable (maybe it would work with
samba ?).

Salsaman.


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