Re: [coldsync-hackers] removable media support

[Adam McDaniel <adamm@psynch.com>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:29:19PM -0800, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 	You mean VFS support? Quickly perusing the code, it does not appear
> so, however, with the Sony devices, you can mount the MemoryStick in the
> Palm device as a USB Storage Device, and just copy files to it like you
> would a normal drive.
Thats what I heard as well, until I found out that my S320 doesn't
support that type of direct mounting (lack of an msimport.prc) so I
had to invest in a $100 external usb adapter.

> 	I say give it a go, I'd love to see how you approach the problem.
its always fun... :)

Unfortunatly I cannot seem to find an anonymous cvs link to pick up
the latest source. I suppose I could work with the snapshot, but isn't
there anything more recent?

> 	Adding VFS support will happen though, but the ARM platform may
> change all that, since the OS5 API is much different than the OS4 API, with
> regard to "proper" code; i.e. null pointers, file descriptors, a "real"
> filesystem, etc.

I havn't seen much on the specs for OS5 anywhere,... do you have any links?

thx :)


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Adam McDaniel
Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.

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