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Please help me out- I'm looking for a small module that was probably intended to be used with some microcontroller or single board computer.
The module had a plug for an USB memory stick and a simple 8 bit parallel interface on the other side. Any 8 bit processor could easily access this parallel interface (as an I/O port for example) and get access to the memory stick. The neat part was that this was not a low lwvel interface. Instead of reading or writing raw sectors, the processor could request or write files and the chip on the module would handle the stick's file system. It did not even cost very much and is effectively all the hard disk a small 8 bit computer could ever hope for.
The problem is that I can't remember what the module was called and searching brought exactly 0.0 results up to now. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Not really. It's more like USB to parallel, with built in access to the USB stick's file system.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Sorry, but no. These devices directly convert USB to all possible other serial protocols, but nothing parallel. Then there also is the problem that with such a direct access to the USB device, I would only get a stream of bytes. I would have to implement my own drivers for the FATxx filesystem on the USB stick, which may not exactly be easy on an 8 bit computer. The module that I was looking for handled that internally and the host system would not have to deal with any details of the file system.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It does look like the DS_V2DIP1-48 handles the FAT file structure for you. I guess the parallel FIFO would be what you would need to check you can connect to.
What machine are you trying to connect? I am currently soldering an UPURS for my BBC.
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Sounds good.
Quote: CH375 is a USB bus interface chip to support USB-The hOST and USB-DEVICE/SLAVE equipment the way. Locally, CH375 with 8-bit data bus and read, write, chip select control lines and interrupt output can be easily attached to the system bus of the microcontroller/DSP/MCU/MPU controller.
Exactly what I need.
Quote: CH375 firmware also built a dedicated protocol processing Mass-Storage mass storage devices, external microcontroller can be directly used as the basic unit of reading and writing in sectors USB storage devices (including USB hard disk/USB flash drive/U disk).
Sounds more like low level access, but I will take it.
Quote: 5V power supply is powered from the target board.
No problem, even if the CH375 actually runs at 3.3V. I already have to do level shifting for the data bus and the control signals anyway.
Quote: PCB size: 30.16MM * 47.50MM
Should be easy to find a nice place for this when I design the 3D printed case.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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good luck then 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Do you give to charity?
I just found out Natuurmonumenten (Nature Monuments) has three directors that together earn €479,000 a year 
I'm supporting them for €8 a month, meaning almost 5000 people have to support them year round, like I do, just to pay these ridiculous salaries.
Just to put that into perspective, the average salary of the working population in the Netherlands is €36,900.
These directors make more than four times the average salary (the highest earner is close to five)!
So while people are volunteering and gifting for their cause they make four to five times the salary of those who do the gifting.
I get that these people have to earn a living to eat, but with "just" €80,000 they have a very good salary as well and it would leave €239,000 extra for THEIR charity.
That's almost 10,000 of the €25 donations they're asking now to restore the moorland.
It seems my gift is supporting rich CEO's rather than the cause I signed up for.
I might stop giving altogether and start a "charity" myself 
Too bad most CEOs of "charity" make this kind of money.
There seem to be only a handful of CEOs who make below €100,000 (in the Netherlands)...
But at least they don't all have THREE CEOs making such money
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"But if we don't pay them that much, we won't attract the right calibre of people to the role".
We need a :bullshit: smiley.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I think plenty of those average earners are very well suited for the job and they'd be happy with €60,000 becoming €80,000 when they get more experience.
Of course I wouldn't because I'm not about to take a salary cut 
I'm thinking of quitting, but there's not really an alternative either.
They're still doing good work DESPITE (and not thanks) to those CEO salaries.
So the people who want to restore nature are forced to first pay those salaries or give nothing at all 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think plenty of those average earners ...
And I'd agree with you. But those who decide the salaries are either those who receive them, or are "influenced" by them - just like politicians in the UK (who give the same explanation when they give "ten times the rate of inflation" salary increases to themselves while freezing wages for police, firemen, nurses, ...)
To be honest, if people who give money to the charity don't quit and explain exactly why, the salaries will just keep on going up, and proportion of donations that goes to the actual "work" of the charity will go down.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I don't remember who or what it was, but some dude, I believe CEO of a hospital, did a very lousy job and almost made the hospital go bankrupt.
Got about 2 million as a "thanks" when he left
Why is it that the honest hard working employee doesn't see that kind of money in a lifetime, but some CEO gets it FOR MESSING UP!?
I don't have a problem with Amazon, Shell or Philips earning these kinds of salaries, they're clearly for profit organizations (although it's just sad that the richest person on earth is mistreating and underpaying his staff).
But it's just plain wrong when it's charity or a hospital (or any government organization).
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Sander Rossel wrote: But it's just plain wrong when it's charity or a hospital (or any government organization).
A modern hospital is very clearly a for-profit organization.
Start asking for prices there and charity will look like a real charity again, even if their salaries would double.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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How do they make profits with such CEO salaries though? 
Anyway, trying to be that kind of CEO (the kind that earns a lot, not the kind that messes up, treats his employees like sh*t or rips off his customers).
If you can't beat them, join them 
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Sander Rossel wrote: (although it's just sad that the richest person on earth is mistreating and underpaying his staff).
How do you think he got that rich first?
And afterwars is the vice circle... the more they have, the more they want.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I guess you have a point there...
Although I'm not sure all those billionaires do it.
Working for Google or Microsoft is supposed to be nice.
Of course they rip off their customers instead.
I mean, someone has to pay the price.
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Remember that GM's CEO was made to resign his position after the 2008 crash, and took a few tens of millions as a bonus. Certainly not for a job well done, as GM at the time had asked for a handout from governments (US and Canada) to keep itself afloat[*].
Frankly I'm rather ambivalent whether a private company (or a publicly traded one) rewards its CEO with a ton of cash. But when you bring in taxpayers money - this is where I strongly object.
[*] Some are rather quick to point out that the money was repaid. The loan was repaid. The multi-billion dollar investment was not, and nobody's expecting the governments to ever get any of that money back. Somebody else can dig out the exact figures. They're out there.
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It's grabbers giving money to grabbers and the tax payer has to pay up 
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but it shouldn't be about whether the organization is for-profit or not. Compensation should be related to (and less than) the value one brings to the organization. That's kind of the definition of "earning".
If CEO brings $1000000 in value, good on him/her, deserves a big salary.
Likewise, if janitor brings huge value, perhaps janitor should be more well-compensated than CEO.
Of course, value's hard to measure. The point is, a title doesn't necessarily mean that person brings more or less value than an employee with "other title".
I know, rainbows and unicorns...
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Griff's written a lot of correct things over time, but this is one of most accurate.
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It is very common to set up a charity to make a very-good living...
I do a lot, but prefer to give it personally, and in cases I give it by 3rd party I do a very serious check about the money flow...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Giving personally to nature would count as pollution I think 
It's just really difficult, if not impossible, to set up actions that these organizations can set up.
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