[usbip-devel] Turn a USB CD into a pen drive? (mass storage) how?

[Fernando C. <fc...@gm...>]

Hi,

I´m sure that from a technical POV a USB mass storage device is, well,
a USB mass storage device.
Then it´s up to the OS to determine what kind of device it is.

But how can USB-IP help if what I want to do is plug a USB optical
device (CD/DVD reader with ISO9660 or UDF filesystem) and make the
contents accesible as a USB "pen drive" (usb mass storage) device?.

The reason to ask this is that I have a device (media player attached
to a TV) that happily accepts "pen drives" and external hard drives,
but does NOT accept a USB CD/DVD reader... and I happen to have most
of my movies burned to DVD-R already.

So what I´d like to know is if there´s a USBIP feature where a PC with
a USB controller which can be put into client mode, can fake being a
"USB MASS STORAGE" device and make files from its filesystem appear as
contents on a usb mass storage device...

Think that´d be possible, if not possible already?.

FC
PS: Sorry to post this on the dev list. I tried looking if there was a
"USBIP-users" list but it seems there´s none. (And I really really
hate web based forums ;).
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