Announce: USB Storage package for SL 5500/5000 is available

[padishah_emperor]

I would be interested to know if anyone has tried this as a USB drive to work with Mandrake Move.

[lardman]

What\'s Mandrake Move? I use it with Mandrake 9.2.


Si

[padishah_emperor]

Take a look here lardman (like the name, I get called that sometimes...)

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/mandrakemove

It\'s a distro that runs off a CD, you use it with a USB Mass Storage device to hold your data and config. Could be handy if it worked with our beloved Z\'s.

[lardman]

As Move is based on 9.2 I\'d guess (and that\'s all it is) that it will work.

Try it and see ;-)


Si

P.S. Lardman came from my habit (in the first year at uni) of eating nothing much but eggs and bacon (all I knew how to cook back then). Hasn\'t done me any harm either.... :-)

[Anonymous]

LOL!

;-)

[padishah_emperor]

oops, i wasn\'t logged in

[craigtyson]

Iv tried the USB Storage pakage under Opie but it dont work.  The Z looks good to go, but is not recognised by my windows PC when docked.  Is there anything stoopid Imdoing or am I flogging a dead horse?

C

[lardman]

I never actually tested the ipk for OZ. Which version are you running BTW?

I manually placed the storage_fd.o module in place, then I use the scripts (either earlier in this thread or the other one about mass-storage) to change from net to storage etc.


Si

[cesarcardoso]

(Sorry for reviving old topics)

Anyone tried this on a recent (3.5.3) OZ? Specially for those who use / on a SD?

[lardman]

It worked for me with 3.5.3 iirc.

If you have / on the sd card you won't be able to mount the sd card as usb-storage though, unless you are willing to lose / on the Zaurus (whatever's used as usb-storage must be umounted on the Zaurus so it's accessible for the computer you're plugging into to write to it directly).

Si

[cesarcardoso]

Hm. Lardman's package work on my setup. I had to open the package and install it manually because even with sharp-compat-libs installed and all the force-* magic, it always failed complaining about qpe-base.

I used my CF as a storage device.

[craigtyson]

It worked for me with 3.5.3 iirc.

If you have / on the sd card you won't be able to mount the sd card as usb-storage though, unless you are willing to lose / on the Zaurus (whatever's used as usb-storage must be umounted on the Zaurus so it's accessible for the computer you're plugging into to write to it directly).

Si
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This might explain why I couldnt get it to work.  I installed quite a few apps to the SD card I was trying to use as storage... If the SD couldnt be remounted cos its in use then I guess that would be why it didnt work for me.