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