Re: Re: [OT] Virtual USB or Sata drive over network possible?

["John Risby" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, sorry, I did mean e-sata.

Thanks for the pointer Dermot. I hadn't heard of linux-USB gadget but a
quick google search shows it looks promising.

The need to run over cat5 isn't important actually - when I asked the
question I was thinking of the technomate being under the tv but I've
already moved it to n0 so it is sitting next to a linux server and could be
connected directly via usb.

I'll look into it more and report back.

Thanks
John



2009/1/1 dermot_bradley <bradley@xxxxxxx>

> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "John Risby" <john@...> wrote:
> >
> > I've got a technomate 6900 hd satellite receiver/pvr which can
> > record onto usb memory sticks, usb drives or sata drives.
>
> When you say SATA I guess you mean E-SATA?
>
> > I was wondering if there was any usb or sata adapators that would
> > convert to cat5 and allow the use of a server on the network to
> > store the data? ie. run a service on a windows or linux server on
> > the network with a "virtual drive" and then somehow
connect the
> > technomate to it using the usb or sata port and then save
directly
> > to the server? the technomate would still think it was saving to
a
> > phyiscal usb or sata drive, but really it would be saving onto a
> > connected network server. Possible?
>
> There are various devices on the market to extend USB over CAT5 - the
> problem is that they'll only do USB1.x speeds, not USB2.0 so any
> transfer will be slow and therefore the Technomate might not handle
> this due to the amounts of data it needs to write in real-time while
> recording.
>
> Assuming the Technomate could handle the slow speed of USB1.x then I
> guess you could plug the other end of the USB-over-CAT5 boxes into a
> Linux machine - Linux gained the USB Gadget support about 6 months ago
> (from memory) so in theory I guess you could make a Linux box appear
> to be just a USB mass storage device. I'm not sure if all the support
> is currently in Linux for this to work yet or not...
>
>
>
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