sorry for bringing up something allready posted but it's for visibility; isn't what's shown here a possible solution to the USB host problem?
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...503#post331503

(only possible problem would be that this system requires electricity, but it covers the case of HDs and DVD players, where you need electricity anyway..)

plus the mentioned "testmode", to see if it exists and works in some way.

probably we'll have a more definitive answer in a couple of months...