Just to re-cap in response what I learned poking around on the web & faq's today (which is not much):
* Yes, the USB hardware in a PC is host only so you can't use a plain cable to connect two PC's.
* However, there exists 'host to host' cables that have a chip in the middle, ala :
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x573.html
I think that an example of this is:
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Spec1/1729656.html
I think the chip acts as a slave/gadget to both hosts and facilitates the talking between themselves. The typical use of this networking is covered in some detail here:
http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/index.html
So perhaps the question is, with two hosts and the chip in the middle:
A<->(GadgetChip)<->B
can the chip in the middle be instructed / programmed / configured / etc. to look like / talk like an arbitrary type of gadget, in this case a Mass Storage Class device?
Erik
Eugene Nine wrote:
I think someone started a discussion on this recently. IIRC the answer is no it won't work (someone correct me if I'm remembering wrong) because the USB hardware in a PC is a host only controller. You would have to use the hardware supported by the gadget usb drivers for one end. I would like to figure out a way to make something work myself to make a big linux pda from a small laptop. Basically that is what I do now without the synching part, I would love to find a way to make the laptop emulate a palm pilot or some other pda so I could make it synch a calendar and address book with a Windoze box.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Erik Dykema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:16:57 -0500
Hi USB Guys-
I have a question that I haven't seen an answer to in the FAQ's, so would like to ask it here, if anyone has an answer or could point me towards more information I would really would appreciate it! Greg KH pointed me at this list.
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.
thanks, Erik Dykema Columbia University AcIS
My original message can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/msg02295.html
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