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External HD support hacked on the iPad

by Dave Caolo May 10th 2010 at 5:00PM



Here's an awesome trick for adding external HDD storage to an iPad. By "awesome" we mean complicated, round-about, wire-friendly and ultimately impractical (are you going to sit at Starbucks with this rig?), but hey...why do people climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there!

After reading our own Erica's post on enjoying Apple's deceptively versatile iPad Camera Connection Kit, Maxwell C. Shay found a way to get his jailbroken iPad to recognize an external drive with it. Maxwell explains the process in great detail here, but basically he used his MacBook to tunnel through via SSH and trick the iPad into mounting the drive connected with the kit and a split-USB cable.

This set up won't win any prizes for looks, but as for ingenuity it gets an A+. Well done.

[Via Engadget]

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friesNpizzas

I did it and it works like a charm! and the process is not complicated, c'mon!

It also works for usb flash drives ;)

July 26 2010 at 7:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Garulf

You can cut out the Laptop completely if you have OpenSSH installed. Just have iSSH (from the AppStore) connect to 127.0.0.1 root. Mount it, power It.

May 10 2010 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marmaduke

Mi first thought was "external high def" added

May 10 2010 at 6:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
H3

so... I wonder if this same procedure will work for USB thumb-drives...

May 10 2010 at 5:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joe

This is a great find. I think this blog post attempts to make it sound overly complicated. It is truly very easy to do this with a jailbroken iPad. And it needs more power so you must have an external power source. This is common sense. This article should be rejoicing and glad that this happened and that we made such an accomplishment. A simple daemon written in PHP or any scripting language could mount it automatically.

May 10 2010 at 5:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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