Connecting my Wizard to a mobile HDD - Urgent!

[enlite_de]

Hi there,

I have taken lots of useful information from this forum and I must say it is definitely the best forum for wizards in the net!
Now my question:
I am going on vacation on Saturday :-) I have a mobile 250 GB HDD which stores all my music collection. I do not want to take my laptop with me. Is there a way to transfer my music from the mobile HDD to the miniSD card in my Wizard without using the laptop? Can the Resco Explorer and a USB hub help me with that? ANY useful suggestion welcome.
Thanks in advance!

Rgds
Lars

[Troubadour]

Sorry, it's not gonna happen. USB works on a client - master relationship and the HD and Wizard are both clients. Without a device to work as a master (eg a computer, some PMPs) between them, no communication can take place.

Servus

[enlite_de]

what is a PMP?

[Shah2]

what is a PMP?

PMP stands for Portable Media Player. It would be cool though if there would be software available to give the wizard USB Host controller support. Don't know if that is difficult to do.

Cheers,

Shah

[paulrockliffe]

Yeah, to be honest I'm pretty surprised that this can't be done; is there some fundamental reason why its not been done?

Also, can I print stuff off my device yet? I know I can't plug a printer in, but can i print to a bluetooth printer?

[enlite_de]

you can print via IR to HP printers, that I know.

Is there no workaround to connect to a mobile HDD? I can control my PC with my Wizard but I can not access a mobile HDD???

How about emulating a USB Host controller? Any ideas?

[kltye]

I believe you actually need a piece of hardware for a device to act as a USB controller, not just software.

[enlite_de]

What peice of hardware would that be?

[kltye]

What peice of hardware would that be?

I knew that question was going to come up with my phrasing. :P

"Piece of hardware" here refers to an actual chip, like those found on your PC motherboards to act as a USB controller. In short, there is absolutely nothing that you can buy and plug into a Wizard to have it act as a controller. There is a CompactFlash USB controller somewhere, but I heard it's rather unreliable and slow. Plus, it's CF only, and we don't have a CF slot :(

[enlite_de]

We do have a CF slot but we just don't show it anybody :-)

[paulrockliffe]

I'm sure if you took a mini SD to micro SD conerter, a soldering iron and some pieces of wire you could wire up a compact flash jobby. You could probably take the compact flash plug thing to bits and re-weire it to a mini SD one.

[enlite_de]

I rather carry my laptop LOL.
Thanks anyway.