Thinking About Getting This, But...

[Okami]

I'm all set on buying this, but I still don't know if you can connect jumpdrives or usb external harddrives.

The reason that I wanted to buy this is because I wanted to have a big library of music, movies, games, and linux that was portable. I was wondering if you can connect a external harddrive to it.

I saw a site where a guy made a cable to connect a HD using the ext port, but I thought the GP2x already had a usb port.

This is the deciding point for me here, please help!

 

[TelcoLou]

I'm all set on buying this, but I still don't know if you can connect jumpdrives or usb external harddrives.

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You can't. Read the stickied topics and/or search the forums. >CLINK<

 

[Vimacs]

Yes you can, you need a usb host adapter for the ext port, art103 sells them and there might be a official one soon as well.
I dont have the url handy right now.

There are instructions how to build yourself a usb host cable on the wiki.
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/EXT
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/USB_Host

 

[TelcoLou]

Well, I feel like a dick now. Sorry about that ...

 

[Axeman]

Well, I feel like a dick now. Sorry about that ...

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You dont have to apologise about your urges.

 

[Fishbong]

Well, its possible to connect an external drive, but i don´t think there´s any software support for it. That means even if you´re able to make your external harddrive working, you can´t acess it properly, unless you can write the needed software yourself...

 

[torpor]

you *CAN* use external USB-Media (disks, memsticks, card readers, whatever) with the GP2X, and the *ONLY* hard part is getting the cable; either make one yourself, buy one from art103, or wait for the official cable from GPH ..

and once you have that cable, its a piece of cake to use the media. i mount my battery-powered 60gig Datatank on /mnt/sd/datatank (off the SD card) and oila .. 60gigs of movies to watch in bed/on the train with the GP2X ..

 

[___]

maybe it would be a good idea to post torpor's breakout box as a news entry, so people will finally stop denying the possibility of accessing usb-storage media! Because obviously many users are not well informed...

 

[aapje89]

and once you have that cable, its a piece of cake to use the media. i mount my battery-powered 60gig Datatank on /mnt/sd/datatank (off the SD card) and oila .. 60gigs of movies to watch in bed/on the train with the GP2X ..

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seriously?
thats w00t!!!

But device has to power the usb, I assume?

 

[Fishbong]

and once you have that cable, its a piece of cake to use the media. i mount my battery-powered 60gig Datatank on /mnt/sd/datatank (off the SD card)

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Cool, didn´t know it´s possible to mount it directly in GP2X Linux.

Could you post your script?