From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mvdk5-00087O-WE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:08:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8684E09EF; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3094E09EF for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mvdk4-0000JM-6T for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:08:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:08:10 +0200 id 0001047B.4ACD033A.00001044 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:08:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-tuxonice-r3_noscale; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) References: <200910061222.56519.wonko@wonkology.org> <200910071938.28001.wonko@wonkology.org> <726C7F33-F238-41A5-906D-8DD98E3D6313@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <726C7F33-F238-41A5-906D-8DD98E3D6313@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910072308.08379.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: d8eca5af-7861-4128-9c87-0318f8a5ee5f X-Archives-Hash: e9f8237fd5b1f0ea89ada01cd9e8a05c Stroller writes: > On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Rohit writes: > >> I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make > >> drives of one machine available to the other. > >> It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. > > > > I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I > > think I found a similar one. Thanks! Linux is not being mentioned, but > > at least it says there are no drivers needed. I wonder how it would be > > possible that two system use the system at the same time. > > As the cable is cheap, I think I'll just get one and try it. > > Do you have a link for this, please? Only in German: http://www.pearl.de/a-PE187-1414.shtml?query=USB data link It says there is no driver or software installation necessary. When connected, a data transfer program will open automatically. Does this mean there is some program that is executed automatically when connecting, or is this just the usual Windows feature that opens a new drive and shows its contents? > I'm very unclear how this could be achieved without drivers. Me too, after some thinking I believe this will not be what I need. How would the cable know the location where to store data it receives from the other client? Wonko