So my roommate bought that weird Hand386 portable PC that popped up on aliexpress. Let's tear it down (nondestructively for once, since I'm borrowing it).
@jpm@foone The gimmick is the CH375 chip-- it does all the "USB" heavy lifting and just exposes a pretty simple sector-oriented interface. From there, it's all drivers on the host-PC side to shim up something that handles normal BIOS INT 13 commands. With a little effort, you can even make a bootable device out of one.