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Special USB On-The-Go Copier?

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to find a USB OTG copier that will fit my needs.

I'm looking for a USB standalone device (no PC, hence the OTG) that plugs in between a datalogger and a USB flash drive, but in a way that the bridging device is invisible to the datalogger. That is, the datalogger should only see the one USB drive.

However, I'm wanting to be able to make a copy of the USB drive to a secondary USB drive - which would allow me to sneak a peek at the data before the datalogging process is complete. (My application will run up to 100+ hours but I might want to look at it every 12 hours to see if its done if I can.) This should be done without interfering with any data written to the main drive.

I suspect such a device could be made, but was wondering if anyone had come across such a device?

Jim.

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jwmoffat
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Hi Jim,

OTG is not what you're looking for. OTG refers to a single USB port to switch between host or device mode.

There are two ways to achieve what you want. One, as you already suspected, is a computer with a host and a device port each. You could attach the flash drive and then export the file system via the USB device port as mass storage - Linux can do this easily.

This is not necessarily a PC. USB device controllers for PCs are exceedingly rare. There are microcontrollers around which can do this. If you find a device with separate host and device ports (or one of them and an OTG port) you can do it.

This system, for instance:

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With a little Linux shell scripting, you could set it up to be a mass storage device with as many mirrored flash drives you like. Conceptually, it's a RAID array.

The other options is to tap into the communication between the logger and the flash drive directly. This is called a USB sniffer - quite expensive to build or buy.

Kind regards,

Iwo

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Iwo Mergler

For example, AT90USB1287 (one OTG port).

You can use a pair of them: AT90USB82 (USB device) and AT90USB1287 (USB host). They can communicate with serial or spi, etc.

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linnix

such exist and unless you want to design one (and probably even then) you're asking in the wrong newsgroup... try a general computing group.

Bye. Jasen

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Jasen Betts

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