jmcphie

Just got a portable (8") LCD display w/touchscreen, and now I want to make the same leap that afarre did and make it the ultimate carputer. Now all I need is the USB host card so I can get the touchscreen part to work.

Only trouble is, I'm on a budget. There are only 2 ways I'm going to buy this in the near future:

1) I convince my "budget" to let me spend full price on it (not likely).

2) Some kind soul out there who no longer needs/uses their CF USB host card will sell it to me for a generous but reasonable price. I would also consider trades...

Thanks for reading!

thedakr

I just need to ask about this good ol' CF USB host card. Does this mean that if I had one of these CF USB host cards, I could use a external hard drive (like a 100 GB) with PPC? The PPC would act as a master, not a slave in the USB relationship?

jmcphie

Yes, if you do a search for USB host on this site, you'll see that there are actually a ton of devices you can use with this card: mice, keyboards, barscanners, fingerprint readers, touchscreens, and yes, even hard drives. Only USB 1.1 is supported, so it's not super fast, and the drive must be formatted with FAT16 or FAT32 (not NTFS), but for most people, that's not a problem.

Anybody selling theirs?

thedakr

Yeah. Right after I asked my question I thought, wait a minut, why don't I just search for it. I have found some interesting info. Sorry I don't have one for sale for ya :(