On 7 Oct 2009, at 22:08, Alex Schuster wrote:
Stroller writes:
On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote:
Rohit writes:
I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make
drives of one machine available to the other.
It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back.
I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I
think I found a similar one. Thanks! Linux is not being mentioned,
but
at least it says there are no drivers needed. I wonder how it
would be
possible that two system use the system at the same time.
As the cable is cheap, I think I'll just get one and try it.
Do you have a link for this, please?
Only in German:
http://www.pearl.de/a-PE187-1414.shtml?query=USB data link
It says there is no driver or software installation necessary. When
connected, a data transfer program will open automatically. Does
this mean
there is some program that is executed automatically when
connecting, or is
this just the usual Windows feature that opens a new drive and shows
its
contents?
I'm very unclear how this could be achieved without drivers.
Me too, after some thinking I believe this will not be what I need.
How
would the cable know the location where to store data it receives
from the
other client?
I'm not able to answer any of your questions, but I've seen similar
products advertised before which were clearly 2 USB network adaptors -
like this <http://ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA3005.htm> - in a single
cable. In fact, looking up that example I found the same store
explicitly selling exactly as I describe: <http://ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA3004.htm
>.
In this case the "no drivers needed" would suggest to me that the
drivers are installed by default under XP.
Stroller.
