The Toppy has a USB port on the back. Can I use a USB hard disk drive or USB memory card or other USB device to move programmes or TAPs to it?
No. There are two types of USB device – hosts and other devices. For a USB link to work, there needs to be a host involved. This is one of the reasons why the two ends of a USB cable are different. You can’t generally connect two devices that have the same connector. The Toppy is designed to connect to your PC. It is not designed to be a host and allow it to control other devices. That means that, even if you made a cable to adapt the connectors, plugging a hard drive or a USB memory card into the Toppy wouldn’t get you anywhere. There is no software in the Toppy to tell it to look for things on a device connected by USB, and it’s not a host anyway. If you want to move files to and from your Toppy, you need to connect it to a host devices – that means your computer, or a gizmo like the Linksys slug running Puppy software.
