Topic: Usb Idea (Read 166 times)

ClintiePoo · « **on:** January 01, 2006, 10:29:00 AM »

I posted this in the general X360 forums, but there was no answer either way.

I haven't been able to get Windows Media Connect to work with my setup. I'm looking for a way around this. I can make a male-male USB cable. Is it possible to get a folder on my PC to function as a USB flash device? Then I could use "USB Networking" to share my files. Any insight?

Winberg · « **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2006, 03:17:00 PM »

i think its possible if you have your harddrive partitioned right and do some hacking on your pc.

ClintiePoo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 06, 2006, 06:37:00 PM »

I will hack my PC and partition a hard drive if I can, I just need to know what direction to go to do this. If I can get it working, I will produce a tutorial so that others can do this as well.

ClintiePoo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2006, 04:59:00 PM »

I don't want to crack it using USB, I just want to network it.

Would this work? http://www.thinkgeek...c/7f0c/?cpg=25H

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torne · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2006, 09:49:00 AM »

Nope, that thing is a USB network device. i.e. it's *two* usb devices, one plugged into each computer, that are just connected together via a long cable. The Xbox doesn't know how to use the device so it won't do anything.

You can't turn a PC into a USB memory device because it's not possible to get a normal PC USB controller (UHCI/OHCI/EHCI) to act as a USB target, even if you change the drivers..etc. It only works as a USB host. USB is just plain not symmetrical - the chip at each end has to do a different job and they are not interchangable.

You'd need a device with a USB target chip (or USB OnTheGo, which is a single chip that acts as both, though not at the same time) such as a PDA or cellphone, rather than a regular PC.

ClintiePoo · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2006, 12:31:00 AM »

Thanks for the reply. That answers my question.

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