Rick Moen wrote:
Could be. Generalising from my experience with USB flash drives, some present themselves as virtual floppy disks, which cannot have partition tables, whereas some present as virtual hard drives, which can. It all depends on the electronics.
almost a month ago, i tried to access the flash drive embedded on MS Smartphone
using a linux box due to curiosity. it didn't work as i thought it to be even though
the device has a flash drive & a USB interface.
so i tried other ways of accessing the Smartphone filesystem on linux.
- connecting the device on a Win32 box and share the device on the network and
access the filesystem using samba (failed, hehehe)
- install an ftp server on the device then connect to it using ppp and then ftp.
(similar on Pocket PC).
- Linux IRC (plain file transfer)
since i want to understand how the device communicates, i'm sniffing it whenever
it is connected to a win32 box.
the OS of the device is upgradable, meaning we can install Linux on MS Smartphone.
but i wont touch that area heheheh.
there are lots of OSS that been ported to MS smartphone. one of my favorite is the
Gameboy/NES emulation since Java is not supported OOTB (no midlets).
btw, Motorola is shifting from Linux-based phones to MS-based phones. will A760 be the first and last???
i dont know if some of you have heard/read about this: if TCO are for servers/desktops,
then TCD (Total Cost of Development) are for embedded systems. i'm referring to
the MS war against Linux on the embedded space.
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