Subj : limited to USB 1?
To   : Wayne Chirnside
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Dec 31 2004 11:53 am

Hi WAYNE (of 1:123/140),
On Fri, 31 Dec 04 at 10:12 o'clock, you wrote me:

 ->> Why are you limited to USB 1?   You can get  USB 2 adapters, with
 ->> drivers, for under $10 USD (at Tiger).

 WC> Yup sure can. I'd need a slot stretcher however as the sound card and 
 WC> BIOS'ed greater than 34 Gig I/O card and sound card take them 
 WC> all. Hewlett Packard Pavilion.

Can you sacrifice any PCI slot and put a multi-port USB 2.0 card in there?   
Perhaps retire the existing sound-card with a USB-based model.  Then you will 
have additional USB ports for new devices you want to use.   See the Turtle 
Beach T777-1012 at Tiger.  The manual says minimum system requirements: 
P-450Mhz, 128meg ram, 50meg hdd space during install process,  Win98SE, ME, XP, 
2000.

Sorry.. but I don't remember the base system that you are referring to.


Oh..  I remember when PCI technology was coming out, all the wonderful "cards" 
that were designed for PCI, and all I had was the known-frequency-sensitive VLB 
!   Before then, I invested in an extra 4-port VLB serial card (for BBS 
expansion plans at the time)   I also had a combo multi-function VLB-based 
video, harddrive/floppy controller card.   That was a clever way to maximize 
the already few card slots that my 486dx2-55 had at the time.   I also remember 
a few companies that offered ISA  -> PCI converters.


 WC> Actually IIRC it's USB 1.1 which is hopefully a bit better debugged?

Dunno..  But would USB 1.0 = up to 1.5 Mbit/sec,  USB 1.1 = up to 12 Mbit/sec, 
and USB 2.0 = up to 480 Mbit/sec ???


d(-_-)b  ...August

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