XDA as Lap top replacement ?

[Julius]

Does any body knows if the XDA can access like a usb harddisk ?

Because I'd like to use it as a file server for digital camera. Unfortunately
most digicams need special driver to transmit information via usb cable.
They simulate a hard drive. Does any body knows in wich way connection is possible ?

Thank you !
Julius

[climber]

Julius,

XDA is an USB slave device so it can't 'access' a disk, ..., etc.


If you would have browsed this web you would have found:

http://www.xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=477&highlight=usb+slave

and

http://www.xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=211&highlight=usb+slave

It's not to flame you but you could save yourself some time by spending some time on searching this website

Robert

[MADmanFREE]

XDA Developers, or people that hve managed to take this site to a new frontier. I think that something is cropping up time and time again. Which can be looked at in one of two ways..

1. Peoples lack of effort to look around the forums to find what they want.
2. Lack of a search engine, in order for things to be easily found.

If opttion 2 could be solved, I think that this will please a lot fo people. It also stems well for the future. When this site gets a thousand posts a day..

Martin
:oops:

[Peter Poelman]

http://xda-developers.com/phpBB/search.php

But I'll agree we need to put more effort in telling newbies where stuff is.

[climber]

being a newbie I like the search function but I started using it first at my third (or later?) visit. I guess newbies are (out of my own experience :oops: ):
- new to XDA lingo
- eager to ask something and act before thinking

Maybe a solution is to have:
- new users
- guests
- .... ???
... enter the search screen BEFORE they ever get to the 'new post' screen and kinda sorta force them to do something with search before they type in their question. It will at least let them look further than hitting that post/reply button that seems to be more present than the other screens.

I don't think the search screen has to be improved. It works very well according to my standards (if that counts)

Robert