On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Stern wrote: >> > > is there some hardware I can by to turn my desktop into an USB >> > > device or USB OTG device? Preferably this hardware should use my >> > > desktop's memory to back-up its storage. >> > >> > Not that I know of. >> >> Linux supports the net2272 and net2280 boards. > > I'm not sure if they can be bought anymore. But > > http://www.semiconductorstore.com/cart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=43875 > > does say "Usually Ships Same Day" and I believe SemiconductorStore has > a special relationship with PLX so may be. USD150, PCI card. (Not PCIe.) > > 立, PLX chips have very good performance, if SemiconductorStore still > can deliver the above NET2280EVB PCI card then you can realize the > DRAM-backed storage device using a Linux gadget driver, in a powerful > PC with very little effort. I assume I will have to do some PCI programming to move data from memory to the controller by myself? Or can I simply run the gadget driver and everything is taken care of? (Sorry if this seems like a stupid question....) Suli > > > //Peter -- Suli Yang Department of Physics University of Wisconsin Madison 4257 Chamberlin Hall Madison WI 53703 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
