-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:16 am, Erik Dykema wrote: > I would like to know if it would be possible on linux, using a > host-to-host cable, for one machine to act as a storage device for > another machine. In other words, to have one machine pretend to be a > USB hard drive or CD-ROM drive by 'exporting' a directory / partition / > group of files. > I originally posed this question to the debian-boot list, but so > far no one seems to have any thoughts on the matter Booting isn't going to work with any of the host-to-host cables you can buy commercially. They don't provide the right USB device descriptor magic to convince the BIOS that the cable is really a bootable drive.
If you had the right hardware, writing a linux device driver using the "gadget" (USB device, rather than USB host) framework would be possible. An ipaq might be a candidate for this. Brad -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAE6n5GwwszQ/PZzgRAj3vAKCGU2VKIYMC3hLzSjHck9Q6HAV43gCgiG35 8qCjogF3VamyGa0DOkpln68= =vlNU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
