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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: April 23, 2004, 05:33:27 pm »

I spoke too soon...

I just took my Zaurus out of the dock and plugged in the external drive.  dmesg says it saw it and attached it to /dev/sda1.  I had modified /etc/fstab to have the line

/dev/sda1   /mnt/usbstorage   auto   noauto,owner 0 0

cloning from the /dev/mmcda1 line.  I did a

mount /dev/sda1

and a

cd /mnt/usbstorage
ls

I am now looking at the directory listing of the files on the drive.

Hi, I think the power of the drive is provided by Z. How is this affect the battery life?  Thanks.

My external USB drive, which I normally have plugged in to my laptop, has its own external power.  I can\'t speak for drives which don\'t.

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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: April 22, 2004, 07:41:50 am »

I\'m still confused by the discussion here

http://www.serialio.com/info/zaurus/notes/...SL-6000USB.html

regarding the POSSIBLE use of the usb connector on the Z for sync.   The article says, of course, that is better to use the ZThinCable BUT implies you could use the other.  I would think that if you tried to use the usb connection on the Z for sync that both the Z and the desktop/laptop would try to play \"host\" and nothing would happen.

When I plugged my Z in to my laptop like this, nothing, in fact, happened.

I would appreciate any clarification here.  Thanks in advance.

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6000 - Tosa / USB HD attached to Z!

« on: April 21, 2004, 10:58:31 pm »

I plugged my Magicvision USB camera into the Z using the cable being discussed in the \"USB Cable\" topic.  The Z \"saw\" it as shown in dmesg.  Unfortunately, no active driver.  That doesn\'t shock me as I don\'t believe this camera works even under Red Hat.  Maybe you will have better fortune.

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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: April 21, 2004, 03:49:58 pm »

I spoke too soon...

I just took my Zaurus out of the dock and plugged in the external drive.  dmesg says it saw it and attached it to /dev/sda1.  I had modified /etc/fstab to have the line

/dev/sda1   /mnt/usbstorage   auto   noauto,owner 0 0

cloning from the /dev/mmcda1 line.  I did a

mount /dev/sda1

and a

cd /mnt/usbstorage
ls

I am now looking at the directory listing of the files on the drive.

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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: April 21, 2004, 03:41:57 pm »

I purchased the cable at my local Staples.  It was in a display case pretty close to the front of the store.

The good news is that when I plug in my 120 GB External USB 2.0 drive, the Zaurus \"sees\" it as evidenced by dmesg.

The bad news is that I can\'t yet figure out how to get it attached to /dev/sda1 or some such and then mounted to /mnt/usbstorage or some such.  I\'ve been doing compares of /etc/hotplug between my Zaurus and my Red Hat Professional system.  I\'ll keep trying...

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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: April 20, 2004, 08:13:00 pm »

Thanks for the information.  However, I looked on the Staples web site and didn\'t see anything obvious.  Is it possible that it hasn\'t \"hit the store\" yet?  Do you have any more information that would help be find it.  I searched on QuickConnect and went to Computer Accessories-]Cables...-]USB Cables....  Thanks!

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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: April 20, 2004, 01:30:31 pm »

I found a Mini-A to Std-B USB cable here...

http://www.vss.com.sg/

I am trying to find out about retailers.  If I can obtain it, I will try some of my devices e.g. 120MB USB 2.0 (I know Zaurus is not 2.0) drive.