On 24 Sep 2003 at 7:38, Martin.Buehler@KEYMILE.COM wrote:

> Is there a design around anywhere, which allows accessing an IDE
> Harddisk (Fat32) over an USB or Ethernet Interface?
>
> I would like to access an IDE Harddisk in an embedded system from the
> 'outside' over a fast service interface, and i think USB or Ethernet
> would be nice (when connected to a PC over this interface, it should
> be available like an ordinary Harddisk.

Yep, there are lots of commercial units around that do that. USB2.0 external
hard drive enclsures are pretty cheap now. I would have preffered Firwire but
I bought an el-cheapo USB2.0 unit and it works very well. Very fast data
transfer, from memory I think I clocked it at more than 12MByte/sec
transferring large video files. Even works on my USB1.1 laptop. Great for
backups.

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