From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 16:02:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17436 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17424; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA25470; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:31:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA00737; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:31:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981023083143.C28824@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:31:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nick Hibma , Luigi Rizzo Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: USB (was: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD) References: <199810220803.JAA11764@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:04:50PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 22 October 1998 at 12:04:50 +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: >> Speaking of USB: i have read that bus throughput with a single node is >> reported at about 750KB/s, whereas with multiple nodes bus throughput >> falls down very rapidly (because of arbitration etc ?) to 250KB or so. > >> So i would not want a HD on it! > > At max of 1mb/s a second (I can't remember the exact theoretical > maximum, but it should be more than 750Kb/s) you dont' want to have more > than a floppy attached to that port. I've just bought an Epson Stylus 740, which comes with both parallel and USB interfaces. One of the two CDs that come with it include some silly "documentation" (not a word anywhere of the control codes it uses), but it does describe some aspects of the USB interface. It states that it supports a bit rate of 12 Mb/s ("full speed device"). I think this is possibly acceptable for a printer; it's certainly a lot more than a parallel port can handle. It also states that it uses NRZI data encording [sic], and that the driver requires 10 MB of disk space. I wonder how big a kernel would be if they supplied it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message