- #Usb gadgets for mac serial#
- #Usb gadgets for mac driver#
- #Usb gadgets for mac software#
- #Usb gadgets for mac mac#
- #Usb gadgets for mac windows#
#Usb gadgets for mac mac#
There's target disk mode on most or all Mac computers with a USB-C port. In summary there's three methods I know of to try.
#Usb gadgets for mac software#
For this connection to do more than provide power to the laptop there needs to be the right kinds of software on both systems, and "USB gadgets" is one project to create that software. This can be demonstrated by plugging such a laptop into another computer using a USB-C male to USB-A male cable, the laptop will appear to the other computer as a USB device. Most computers with a USB-C port is capable of acting in USB device mode, this is required of any laptop that uses USB-C to charge its batteries.
#Usb gadgets for mac serial#
With a virtual USB device emulated on an Ubuntu host the macOS USB host could see the Ubuntu system as a USB standard drive, network device, or serial device. One is called something like "USB gadgets" which allows a Linux USB host to act like a USB device. There are open source projects out there that are working on means to aid in USB host to USB host data transfer. Such cables can act in a network emulation mode or serial emulation mode but both systems need to use the same mode for a connection to be established. Ubuntu sees the cable as an Ethernet adapter but the macOS computer sees it as a serial adapter.
It's this configuration difficulty that I've run into.
#Usb gadgets for mac driver#
There's the much faster USB 3.x cables, which can transfer date at gigabit speeds, but may leave the user with driver and configuration difficulty. There's the USB 2.0 version which is widely supported but limited to 480 Mbps speeds. Be aware that there are two kinds of such cables. With some effort such cables should work well, I have not put in the required effort just yet.
#Usb gadgets for mac windows#
Such cables are called "easy transfer" cables (named after the Windows utility by that name) or "LapLink" cables (after a popular manufacturer of such cables) or just "USB transfer cable". I have tried file transfers between Ubuntu and macOS using an active USB transfer cable without success. If the drive is encrypted then target disk mode may not be helpful in transferring files with anything other than another macOS computer. Read and write access might be slightly more difficult. As I recall it should be trivial to mount and read an unencrypted macOS drive as this is something included in most Linux distributions or is easily installed. Depending on how the Mac is setup the drive could be formatted in a number of different file systems, could have multiple partitions (for dual boot with Boot Camp as an example), and could be encrypted. That solves the problem of making the connection but not of getting the Ubuntu host computer to read and write the Mac drive. This may suggest that USB target disk mode is no longer supported by Apple but that does not mean it doesn't work, it does work because I used it. I also recall seeing Apple list USB as a supported means to use target disk mode in older support documents. The Apple support pages will claim it only works with Thunderbolt and FireWire but I have successfully used USB transfers between two Mac laptops using a common USB-C male to USB-A male cable. Apple has support pages on this, and other tech sites cover this option as well. One means to transfer files to and from most newer Macs by USB is with target disk mode. I realize that this question was asked years ago but I'll answer in case someone has the same question and finds this thread. You can find more information about difficulties using USB in this way by checking out this explanation, or look at a more hopeful explanation that this is possible by using TCP/IP over USB. Is there a reason both of these machines couldn't be hooked up to a router/switch so that you could use SAMBA, or other data-transferring programs? How often do you intend to need to do this? Do you actually have a Standard A to Standard A USB cable? Unfortunately, it is unlikely that you can remove the HDD from the Apple product. You can buy special SATA to USB cables or self-powered devices to make this easier. Once you establish a network, you can use programs such as rsync, sshfs, scp or even samba to share files between the computers.Īnother solution, especially when dealing with raw data (vs files), or a lot of data, would be for you to remove the HDD from one machine, and connect it to the other machine. While it may be obvious, the speed of the transfer will be limited by the speed of the network speed, so you should try to use wire connections if possible.
A lot of the time a router is involved, but you can create a network between two machines in the same way, using WiFi or crossover cables. Typically, data is transferred between computers using a network, such as your LAN.
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