[Gllug] emulating a pendrive

[Peter Corlett]

On 13 Oct 2009, at 13:16, Karanbir Singh wrote:
[...]
> I know that Mac's can do a 'target mode' over firewire that sort of
> achieves something like this ( not sure if that works over usb as well
> ). And I recall 'endpoint' did something similar for Linux, no idea if
> its still in development and/or how stable it is:

Firewire is peer-to-peer, and allows anything to plug into anything  
else, software willing.

USB has separate host and device, operated in a master-slave  
relationship. Hosts cannot directly talk to hosts, and devices cannot  
talk to devices.

This is also why both ends of a Firewire cable are identical, whereas  
USB has distinct ends.


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