Thursday, January 9, 2003
USB Mass Storage Driver for Pocket PC 2002
Posted by Janak Parekh in "SOFTWARE" @ 03:17 PM
The Toshiba e740, Casio E200, and a few other Pocket PCs have had USB host support for a while now, but their use has been limited due to a lack of drivers for USB peripherals. This has been changing, with drivers having recently been written to support mouse pointers (and, correspondingly, USB mice) in Pocket PC 2002; today comes the news from a Brighthand discussion that a Mass Storage driver is now working, enabling the use of USB hard drives, cameras, etc. Note that this code is alpha-quality and could cause corruption, so don't go plugging your main hard drive just yet -- but kudos are deserved for the Pocket PC community, especially DeJe, for their work.
