Laptop Dock and it's USB Ports

[g0nk]

With the laptop dock, it has 2 USB ports. I've seen video of demonstrators using a mouse with the laptop dock, so there's 1 port used up. I am curious if anyone has seen any type of information on if you can plug a USB Memory stick, or portable USB based hard drive into the USB ports of the Laptop Dock and if it would be usable.

I think it would be awesome if I could plug a 500GB hard drive with all my media and play music/movies/pictures on the Laptop Dock through the phone.

 

[glitterbug]

With the laptop dock, it has 2 USB ports. I've seen video of demonstrators using a mouse with the laptop dock, so there's 1 port used up. I am curious if anyone has seen any type of information on if you can plug a USB Memory stick, or portable USB based hard drive into the USB ports of the Laptop Dock and if it would be usable.

I think it would be awesome if I could plug a 500GB hard drive with all my media and play music/movies/pictures on the Laptop Dock through the phone.

I saw a CES video and the moto rep said you could hookup an external drive.

 

[LockeCPM4]

I saw a CES video and the moto rep said you could hookup an external drive.

Thank you for the info. This is looking like a more promising device more and more every day!

 

[swornenemy]

I wonder if the USB ports will support other devices like a USB serial dongle.

 

[Sogarth]

I saw a CES video and the moto rep said you could hookup an external drive.

Confirmed. I plugged in a USB drive into the lapdock on a lark, and it detected it and mounted the drive just fine. Based on what the folks in the "Dock without dock" thread are saying, it may actually be possible to plug the Atrix into a USB hub and have it detect USB drives that way too (since they're hooking up keyboards and mice via that mechanism if I'm reading it correctly).

 

[Ririal]

I've noticed that the phone does NOT recognize NTFS formatted drives, only FAT32. I haven't tested exFAT or any linux file systems yet. Just FYI.

 

[shawnbuck]

Could you try a few Linux filesystems as well? I'm curious to see what this kernel supports.

 

[Ririal]

Could you try a few Linux filesystems as well? I'm curious to see what this kernel supports.

If you know of a simple way to format them under Windows, I'd be happy to. I can't find a tool that lets me format, only read-only access to mounted drives. I don't have access to a linux box while at work.

 

[Sogarth]

Could you try a few Linux filesystems as well? I'm curious to see what this kernel supports.

Anything in particular you're looking for? You can always check /proc/config.gz for the full kernel configuration. Here are some of the entries you're probably looking for:

CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT4_FS is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_GFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_OCFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BTRFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NILFS2_FS is not set
# CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set