This is from the ipaq-linux list. I have not tried this and I do not know if the USB hardware is similar. Anybody?

Marius
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Maybe you will want to have a look at an existing implementation spotted
earlier on this list :

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 17:25, Ahmed Abdel-Hamid wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> I made a kernel module to make the ipaq appears as a usb mass storage
>> device to the host. It lets one of the block devices available on the
>> ipaq be accessible from the PC which is running either Linux or Windows
>> 2000/XP or any other os that supports usb mass storage devices.
>> It is an implementation of USB mass storage class with bulk only
>> transport. I used a random vendor id and product id for the usb device.
>> The scsi layer is based on reduced block commands, but only those
>> commans that make it working are implemented. No error handling is
done yet.
>>
>> You can get it from:
>> http://ahmedahamid.tripod.com/usbmass/usb_mass.html
>>




Tobias Ekbom wrote:
> I too have thought of the exact same thing - haven't had the time to
> actually write something that resembles a driver though. Is the "standard"
> USB storage specs publically available? And if so; where?
>
> /Tobias E.
>
>
>>On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:46:31PM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now I have a CF adapter and 512MB CF card, I was thinking today how
>>>useful it would be if it was possible to fool a PC into thinking my
>>>IPAQ H3970 was a standard USB storage device. Then you could plug it
>>>into any USB-equipped PC and copy files onto it.
>>
>>I've thought the exact same thing. I have no idéa weather it is
>>possible, but the easy solution is of course to get a separate USB CF
>>reader.
>>
>>--
>> Niklas
>>
>
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Hmm. Could be useful as a starting point. It's written for a 2.4.x kernel so you'll need to make some changes.
It's still only a mass storage device though so if you want to mount the music partition under Windows then you'll need an ext2 fs driver.
I would have a go at rewriting it but I'm really busy for the next week or so. If nobody else volunteers then I'll have a look after that.

- Trevor

No, this is not nearly as useful as USB ethernet would be.

We should probably revive that old thread and see if the guy who implemented it will pass on the code, since he's not working on it anymore.

Cheers

It is not so much "not being worked" more like "going very slowly". At the moment it passes about 50 frames then kernal panics, Win2K sees this as a network card being unplugged without being stopped and promptly displays the BSOD.

All of that means I cannot work on it while I am at work and waiting for compiles of my paying code, hence very slow progress. On top of that we have just moved house so I probably only get an hour or so of Empeg hacking a week.

I am hoping that after this weekend things will have settled down a bit, and I can throw some more time at it to finish it off.

Oh good! Well, we all continue to hang by a thread in eager antici ... p ...