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On 8/1/06, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 17:37, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>
> > Ok, and the hard drive pin settings to do this while at a vendor booth are?
> > ;)
> > Suppose a portable w/ linux and the scythe device to hook up the external
> > hd via usb would work, but was looking for a small (as in fits in hand)
> > version -- linux juice box would be nice --
>
> Uhh.. how about a laptop and USB-->PATA adaptor.

Ok, for a few $$ more, SATA, PATA, and  IDE HardDisk to your USB 2.0
Port, R-Driver III .

Firewire versions (under drivedocs) http://www.wiebetech.com/home.php
seem a bit on the expensive side.

> >   Ok, along with the scythe product, using handheld size stuff, use
> > smartclt if you have a linux handheld/pda w/ usb connection OR use hand
> > held PDA/phone as a router to a home box with linux on it to use smartctl
> > (with a remote xwindow redirect back to the device doing the routing).
>
> Uhh... smartctl talks to the hardware directly over the IDE/SCSI bus.  You
> can't "route" it over a network.

Hummm......
Plug Usb drive into usb port, registers as scsi device.
So are you saying that using an end adator to hook up one of the usb
ends of aformentioned devices to a usb to ethernet connection,
forwarding the tcp/ip packets to some other box, and unwinding the tcp
packet with the results going on the usb stack as a local drive is not
feasible or not reasonable?

>
> I still think a laptop woud suffice. ;)

Easiest non-geeky solution.

Craig

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