Re: media player, charge only

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Jack,
Correct. Pins 2 and 3 are the data pins. Pins 1 and 4 are the power pins.

Pin Signal
--- -------
1 +VDC (+5)
2 - VDC (gnd)
3 + D (data +)
4 - D (data -)

When looking at the end of the USB connector, with the thick black part on
bottom and the connector pads on top of that, then pin 1 is on your right
and pin 4 on your far left.

For a nice pretty picture of the connector and much, much more info go to
following website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus

The graphic is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:USB.svg

Generally, "charging" cables only have two wires - for pins 1 & 4.

karl snooks



"Jack Sprat" <Ashes901@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 20, 5:28 am, bojimbo26...@xxxxxxx wrote:
Being rude : totally stupid question .

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:19:45 -0800 (PST), Jack Sprat



<Ashes...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If a company has media file intolerance and runs background
opperations to detect and delete all .mp3, .wmv, etc. files from
local
or external drives ...

How can oneconnecta mediaplayer(Sansa) for the purpose of charging
only.
In other words I do not want the OS (MS Win XP Pro v2002 sp2) to
recognize theplayeras a mass external storage device.

In short, I want tochargetheplayerwhile in the office, but not
have my library detected and deleted.

Any ideas? Maybe an autorun setting in the registry?

Thanks,
Jack- Hide quoted text -

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Tom [Pepper] Willett,

Thanks for the response. The company wishes to avaoid liabiltiy from
unscrupulous emplyees that have illegally downloaded files and expose
them to their system.

I don't want to beat IT practices. I want to comply, but still
recharge my personal media player via the convenience a USB port.

I have asked, IT department won't answer the questions.



Chuck,

Thanks much for the response. I didn't realize such power only USB to
Sansa cables existed, and would have assumed it to be a custom cable.
I also have not found one available at commercial sites. Please post
a link if you know of one.

Is it as simple as masking pins 2 & 3 on USB cable?



Bojimbo26,

Why poke at someone's ignorance? The purpose in a news group is to
educate each other.

Obviously some questions are trivial to others.



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