From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 29 0:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.laserlab.com (carbon.laserlab.com [63.70.156.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F143837B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gregb@localhost) by carbon.laserlab.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id AAA20496 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:39:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Benjamin Message-Id: <200010290739.AAA20496@carbon.laserlab.com> Subject: Re: USB ports replacing legacy ports on new machines (fwd) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 29 Oct 100 00:39:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I thought USB's speed limit was 400kbps. I can't see using USB for ethernet or disk. No, 12 mbps. today on any dime-store-variety PC or Mac. > From what I've read, Firewire is the better solution of the two. Way better throughput. > I have recently seen a hard drive with a firewire interface, FWIW. > If I read industry standard practice correctly from the retail point of view, > USB will be pumped up and sold out until the next "wonderful bus", a.k.a. > Firewire, is "discovered". It's only money. No, USB 2.0 is rated at 480 mbps. It is more likely that firewire (IEEE 1394) will fall by the wayside eventually (if USB 2.0 works as intended) o------------------------------------------------------------------------o | Gregory Benjamin Laserlab, Inc. o Laser photoplotting | | gregb@laserlab.com 6790 Top Gun Street o CNC machining | | Suite 9 o Chemical milling | | San Diego, CA 92121 o Printed Circuit Fabrication | | www.laserlab.com Tel: 858-646-7660 o Precision photomasks | | ftp.laserlab.com Fax: 858-646-7667 o AutoCAD to Gerber conversion | o------------------------------------------------------------------------o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message