[Wylug-discuss] [off-topic] Laptop that becomes a USB Drive

[Daniel Walker]

The firewire equivalent functionality on Macs is lovely. Actually, it's
vaguely possible that the one I'm thinking of was a PC with Firewire.
What
gets me is that it's such an astoudingly good idea - presumably the only
reason
it';s not more common is that it's destroy the slaes og docking stations.

I actually think it was a Fujitsu  of some sort. Or maybe I dreamt it...

Dan


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:34:54 +0000, "peter nix" <p.j.nix at leeds.ac.uk>
said:
> The firewire equivalent functionality is standard on macs today, and
> replaces an equivalent functionality available on them in the past via
> the scsi bus:
>
> "Make sure that your computer is shut down and the computer you are
> connecting to is on. Connect your computer to another FireWire-equipped
> computer. Start up your computer and immediately hold down the T key.
> Your computer display shows the FireWire logo. Then your computer
> internal hard disk icon  and the icon of a CD or DVD disc  appear on the
> desktop of the other computer."
>
> The point of this is to allow you to mount the discs of an un-bootable
> machine on a bootable one - particularly useful when you have a portable
> without any removable disc drives.
>
> Inverting the arrangement, it's hard to see why  pocketable drives so
> seldom come with a cpu/os for when there isn't a larger host about for
> them to attach themselves to, or insert themselves in:
>
> The linux iPod:
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~geha/ipod/
>
> The Intel personal server
> http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5772921353.html
>
> Peter
>
>
> James Holden wrote:
>
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> > Daniel Walker wrote:
> > | apologies for the off-topic post..
> > |
> > | I remember a while back I was pricing up laptops and I saw one that had
> > | a USB-b socket on so that, if the machine was off, you could use a
> > | standard USB cable and connect it to another machine, and the entire
> > | hard drive showed up as a USB drive.
> > |
> > | Now I can't remember who made it. Does anyone else?
> > |
> > | Dan
> >
> > Are you sure it wasn't some kind of USB-USB networking thing? I heard of
> > that once, so that you could link it to your desktop without messing
> > around with bits of ethernet.
> >
> > The functionality access the hard disk with the machine switched off
> > wasn't there though, if I remember correctly.
> >
> > That said, I can't remember where I saw that thing, either.
> >
> > James
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