Dongley

The latest Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 allows FAT32
USB drives to 
be plugged into it.

What I'd really like is something that could act as a USB HD
but 
would also have a network connection (wired or wireless is
fine) so that 
content on it can be manipulated by real machines.

Bonus points if it's easily upgradeable/expandable
especially if it can 
take other USB drives and mount them into it's file tree
somewhere.

Of course one possibility would be to build a Linux box that
does this 
but I'd really prefer drag'n'drool functionality and instant
on and I 
have no idea how to make Linux pretend to be a disk drive.

Does such a beast exist? 

I think the Buffalo TeraStation does similar but they're not
cheap (not 
that expensive either but not cheap) and I was wondering if
there was a 
ghetto solution out there.


 

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:35:05AM +0000, Simon Wistow
wrote:
> What I'd really like is something that could act as a
USB HD but 
> would also have a network connection (wired or wireless
is fine) so that 
> content on it can be manipulated by real machines.

LinkSys NSLU2? Maybe it's a bit old now. But the principle
stands -- get
a little embedded dev board with some USB support and a
linux kernel.
Stuff like the NSLU2 is designed for that use case.

/joel

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 11:35 +0000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a ghetto solution out
there.

Isn't that "pop a cap in it's scrawny white
ass[1]"?

/J

[1] no not a donkey.
 
-- 
Acting my shoe size since 1972

On 7 Dec 2007, at 11:35, Simon Wistow wrote:

> The latest Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 allows
FAT32 USB drives  
> to
> be plugged into it.
>
> What I'd really like is something that could act as a
USB HD but
> would also have a network connection (wired or wireless
is fine) so  
> that
> content on it can be manipulated by real machines.

I assume Xbox (or indeed anything) would get properly
confused  
accessing a filesystem that changed under its feet. What you
describe  
is roughly the same as connecting two computers to one hard
drive and  
expecting it to work.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten