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If you now, or are have already connected the USB device cable to a host pc, you should now see the USB device. Like any usb drive | If you now, or are have already connected the USB device cable to a host pc, you should now see the USB device. Like inserting any other usb drive you should now have a new device on your system. From a linux host pc: | ||
[690892.624575] sd 23:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 | [690892.624575] sd 23:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 | ||
[690892.626160] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] 195312 512-byte logical blocks: (99.9 MB/95.3 MiB) | [690892.626160] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] 195312 512-byte logical blocks: (99.9 MB/95.3 MiB) | ||
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[690892.647287] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk | [690892.647287] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk | ||
Now on your workstation you can use this device as any other usb storage. As this file contains all zeros, you will need to format it and create a partition/filesystem to be able to store data on it. See the documentation for your workstation for more details. Keep in mind you cannot mount the same block device or file twice | Now on your workstation you can use this device as any other usb storage. As this file contains all zeros, you will need to format it and create a partition/filesystem to be able to store data on it. See the documentation for your workstation for more details. Keep in mind you cannot mount the same block device or file twice so this will not allow you to share your live filesystem over USB. |
Latest revision as of 22:25, 10 February 2012
The USB Gadget file storage device will allow you to allow access to a block device (file or otherwise) over USB. To use this functionality, you must first have a block device to give to the driver. In this example I will use a 100MB file on the Debian filesystem.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/usbstorage.img bs=1MB count=100
Load the driver with the file as an argument
modprobe g_file_storage file=/root/usbstorage.img
If you now, or are have already connected the USB device cable to a host pc, you should now see the USB device. Like inserting any other usb drive you should now have a new device on your system. From a linux host pc:
[690892.624575] sd 23:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [690892.626160] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] 195312 512-byte logical blocks: (99.9 MB/95.3 MiB) [690892.628419] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off [690892.628424] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00 [690892.628911] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [690892.644202] sdd: unknown partition table [690892.647287] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
Now on your workstation you can use this device as any other usb storage. As this file contains all zeros, you will need to format it and create a partition/filesystem to be able to store data on it. See the documentation for your workstation for more details. Keep in mind you cannot mount the same block device or file twice so this will not allow you to share your live filesystem over USB.