USB Cable for ipaq to External Hard Drive

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The ipaq 2215, and most other pda's I'm sure, comes with a USB cable to
synch with your PC. Has anyone tried to conned this USB cable to an external
hard drive?

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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:28:04 GMT, "Toan Le"
<toanpublic-easynews@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The ipaq 2215, and most other pda's I'm sure, comes with a USB cable to
>synch with your PC. Has anyone tried to conned this USB cable to an external
>hard drive?

This won't work, since the USB port in the iPAQ can not act as a host,
so you can't hook up external devices to it.

--
Marlof Bregonje
Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices [ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile ]
Pocket PC Thoughts [ http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com ]

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There is an add-on product for Pocket PC's with CF card slots to allow USB
downstream ports, although they only advertise to be compatible with Pocket
PC 2000 and 2002.

http://www.rexpccard.co.jp/english/products/cf.html

Hopefully someone will know if they work with the 2215.


"Toan Le" <toanpublic-easynewsnews@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94D2B1FE96DBtoanpubliceasynewsne@140.99.99.130...
> "Marlof Bregonje, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices"
> <askforit@thenewsgroup.address.invalid> wrote in
> news:leqd8058jtd0m1motg8pnta9e15h5fcedq@4ax.com:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:28:04 GMT, "Toan Le"
> > <toanpublic-easynews@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>The ipaq 2215, and most other pda's I'm sure, comes with a USB cable
> >>to synch with your PC. Has anyone tried to conned this USB cable to an
> >>external hard drive?
> >
> > This won't work, since the USB port in the iPAQ can not act as a host,
> > so you can't hook up external devices to it.
> >
> > --
> > Marlof Bregonje
> > Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices [
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile ] Pocket PC Thoughts [
> > http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com ]
> >
>
> ok thanks Marlof.