Who Wants 30GB Of Storage on Your PSP

**Cloudhunter** · January 5th, 2008, 01:37

Originally Posted by Anger

im wondering why its not possible to use the psp as a device host itself allowing access to usb based hdd's without any cludgy hardware. i dont fully understand why it hasnt been done but it would seem to be more practical.

i believe all pvp has done is taken a 32gig ipod, removed everything from the standard casing, removed the lcd panel, battery and clickwheel, installed linux and used it exclusively as a device host. i think the ipod hard drive is small enough to fit inside the psp and hes most likely using the psp power that normal powers the umd to power the ipod internally.

i have had my ipod apart and i could do this however it would be a nightmare trying to do it - i believe these guys could easily pull that off assuming the ipod is capable of being used as a device host. to test it all you would need is an ipod converted to run linux and set to load usbhostfs, then simply connect the 2 devices via the usb ports. ill be doing some research as to whether the ipod usb can be used as a device host and if so i may try this mod myself.

i really would like to know in advance if this is how he did it so i wouldnt be wasting my time.

He didn't do it like that. He's got some sort of USBHOST programmable PCB, to which he's ported the usbhostfs driver, and made it interface with a USB Mass Storage Device.

iPod Linux doesn't have a USB stack right now, so usbhostfs ported to it is out of the question, and is a long way off - they don't even have standard disk mode without using Apple's firmware.

Cloudy

**Anger** · January 5th, 2008, 01:43

yeah i discovered the post on hackaday that explains it.

thanks anyway - i didnt know if it was possible and now i know it will be and atm its practically impossible without good programming and hardware knowledge. a shame.

perhaps he can share schematics and the software in the future that would allow regular people to do this. in fact i would have made it an external mod that could be attached to the back of the psp. anyway congrats go out to him for achieving this feat.

**psp411** · January 5th, 2008, 02:32

This is cool.. cant wait for instructions to do this mod... could use the xtra space for homebrew and music/videos(dont rly play psp games anymore =P)