A USB disk Driver, for a PC?

[rurapente]

Anyone know if its possible to do this, or has anyone done it.

I need a PC (any OS, pref *nix) that boots up, has a hdd etc. But I want a driver that exposes the PC as a "usb disk" via its USB port.

So if I plug a device into the PC's USB ports, the PC doesnt register it - the PC pretends to be a USB disk to the device.

Not sure if im making sense?

 

[Park@82]

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Not sure if im making sense?

nope.

 

[rurapente]

I have a Western Digital Media Player, it only takes USB disks. So I want to plug into a PC (with big disks, wireless shares etc) and have the media player think a folder on the harddisk of the PC is a "usb disk drive" through some fancy footwork. if at all possible.

 

[TheRift]

I think what you are getting at is that you want to implement a driver that converts your USB host into a slave/client.

You're trying to mimmick a USB drive. Probably can be done, but good luck. I've had this on my list of embedded projects to do for a while. Unfortunately, most USB controllers are host controllers. You'll need some fancy footwork to do this as a driver.

You could look into this:

http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/