Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

See my previous post, in order for the HD to get enough juice, I need to power the USB HUB with a USB AC adapter. LaptopPC USB plug is NOT enough to make my HD work, although it is having a steady green light though. Have you tried to use an USB AC adapter with your USB HUB? I know it is frustrating, we will get it work :)


bun

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

It really seems to be about the power. I have tried using the AC adapter that came with it i.e. 5V@2A so the should be plenty of power. I also used an external battery pack/cell phone charger that I use to recharge the N800. Nothing seems to work. I'm sure glad you have patience :D though I'm almost ready to give up. The one thing I haven't tried (I'll do it tonight) is to try every thing with an external 3.5" USB drive. I think everyone says that works (directly and through the hub)

C

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

Definitely considering trying THIS out. I can't see dimensions of the unit anywhere...but it's a 4-port Battery Powered USB Hub. That's awesome. If anyone checks this out, be sure to post your reviews for us!! :D

http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Cybernet...-Hub-CP-H420MP

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

Check out dmesg, like I suggested on the other thread. It may reveal something important.

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

Thanks. The pics are really nice, a pic paints a 1000 words. I am interested to see whether you can get any ext HD runs with the AA-battery powered device. I got several of them, I can get a lot of stuff working, but no HD, yet. You never know ;)

Like this palmsize HD, I have been trying for months before I pull this off, power on the tablet with the HD attached.


bun

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

I thought I had posted this this morning but I don't see it. I it is duplicated somewhere else let me know and I will erase it.
As Jethro suggested above and the other thread, I took several passes of dmesg with and without the HD on (and not working) and my flash USB. I redirected it to 3 files that are in my root directory but I can't get them out. I'm using putty - is the a "file " command to send them to my PC. I tried sending them to my flah drive using:
cp /root/*.txt /media/usb/sda1/*.txt I can see them on the drive so they seem to get copied but I can't see them with my PC (I can't seem to unmount them - maybe the files aren't being closed??? I'll keep trying if someone thinks it's important to solve my problem and then I can post them so they can read them. The easiest would be if I can get a command to send them over putty (ssh)

TIA

C

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

that doesn't look like a proper command...

cp /root/*.txt /media/usb/sda1 I think is what you want.. you don't want *.txt at the end of the second parameter.. it would cause for unexpected results methinks... and yes.. I swear I read someone else say this same thing recently..

Aha...

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...2Fsda1%2F*.txt

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

I got the files to go to the flash disk (twice) and I think I did it earlier, but I can't unmount the drive - no unmount command and the usb symbol has a disconnect but it only flashes. I shut the power off (I think that should unmount cleanly then) and when I look with my laptop they aren't there - I think because they didn't get closed properly. They were on the flash drive since I could look at them with putty(ssh) and the local file manager. Is there a way to transfer the 3 files with putty or the installed go to root mode so I can see the files in /root. I could do that with another file manager I had but I haven't installed it yet on Diablo.

Cheers

C

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

putty has pscp.. a different exe downloadable at their site which allows you to SCP files over..

pscp root@tablet:/root/*.txt ./

is what you would do in a dos prompt... you can't umount if the device is busy.. which means that all terminals must not even be cd'd into the /media/usb directory or it will return device is busy.

Other than that I dunno.

Re: 160G palmsize HD to N800.......working!
 

I got them from the N800 through pscp - thanks fs. Slowly getting there - 1 babystep at a time...
The dmesg names should be relatively obvious what I was doing.
1. no USB
2. 20 GG HD through the 4 port hub
3. USB flash
So if someone wants to take a look and see if there is something interesting, I would appreciate it.

TIA

C