On Tuesday 20 November 2007 22:00:47 A K wrote:
> Maybe someone who is more familiar with the TCP stack overhead and USB
> overhead can more definitely say.  What I would really like to see is
> this made into an open source project, but would like more feasability
> comments from experienced stack users before continuing.
>   -Andrew

Nice idea. I actually had a friend who was working on a project that does 
something a little similar many years ago. It had an ATA interface on one 
side and an ethernet interface on the other. The idea was essentially to 
present a harddrive to the PC, while actual storage happened on the server. 
Don't think he managed to finish it.

The USB idea might be better though. I believe I have seen sample code from 
Microchip on turning it's 18F USB pic into a USB storage device. Personally, 
I think that it's technically feasible. Not sure about the throughput though. 
You might get better performance from some other microcontroller.

Cheers.

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