Using USB hub without PC

[Biso007]

Hi,

Using a self-powered USB hub, is there a way to make the XDA to read/write to a USB flash-disk ? (without using a PC).

Thx in advance

[cruisin-thru]

Dont think so, usb uses a master/slave type of protocol, both the hub and the xda are seen as slaves and cannot talk to one another as far as I know.

[Rudegar]

yep thats true when it comes to usb
there is 1 master and all other devices is seen as
peripheral devices and cant access anybody but the master
which is pretty much always the pc

suppose that the xda could be changed so it could act as master
but it would require mayor changed to it's usb interface
and would require that it only tried to be master when no other master was present on the chain

more about usb read here
http://www.usb.org/home

[Biso007]

Thx mates,

the idea came to my mind after seeing how easy to use flash disks and the silly need to get a PC or laptop to move its data to the XDA. May be in future some one will come up with a "22pin-female USB" cable to access flash disks .... I understand of course there will be special s/w on the XDA side to manage this operation

or even better ... a USB port in XDA III ;)

[Rudegar]

yes sooner or later it's bound to become std that the pda can be master i seem to recall that some brand of pda's can but i forget which ones it is

also a possible way to do it would be a backpack
or even a odd SDIO card (odd because it would have to be a bit thick if it had to have a std usb connector :P )