2002-09-17-09:03:26 Jan Keirse: > I was just wondering: If you have a laptop, and you have acces to a windows pc, > would it be possible to make the laptop running linux pretend to be a usb mass > storage device (making one directory in your filesystem look like the root of a > harddrive to the windows pc).
You'd need some custom hardware. USB is an assymetric protocol, one host talks to one slave device (which may be a hub with more slaves behind it). The only existing hardware I've heard of to connect two hosts together is one of the special USB networking cables, which have USB slave hardware in them for each side acting as a network device, and interconnected to pass packets back and forth between the two slaves. That doesn't help with your desire for Mass Storage. You could build custom hardware. But cheaper and simpler, you could get a simple little pocket USB hard drive and use it as an interchange medium. I'm exceedingly happy with my Pocketec Pockey USB 2.0 30GB hard drive, it's teensy and very nicely packaged, it seem solid, works fine out of the box, no troubles at all --- and when I had some troubles in the beginning (which turned out to be a bad device), both the manufacturer and the local vendor I bought mine from (RCS Computers in NYC) were very helpful and supportive. -Bennett
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