From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 02:18:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1859F16A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:18:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dean@bong.com.au) Received: from aramaki.bong.com.au (aramaki.bong.com.au [203.91.232.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DB943D45 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 02:18:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dean@bong.com.au) Received: from paynet-gw.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au ([203.91.245.98] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by aramaki.bong.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FG5J8-0005kq-Rq; Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:18:47 +1100 Message-ID: <440B9BFF.2010503@bong.com.au> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:18:39 +1100 From: Dean Hamstead User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MC References: <28a99ba50603051813o18b30df3t1df3e3bb9a9a6347@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <28a99ba50603051813o18b30df3t1df3e3bb9a9a6347@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best USB PCI Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:18:44 -0000 i would be careful with the theory that the usb pci card supplies N number of completely independent USB 2.0 ports. im not sure that they don't just supply one and then a built in N port hub. just food for thought. Dean MC wrote: > Hi I am shopping for a USB2 PCI card to support 4 or more USB hard drives. > I thought to > get a PCI card rather than an external USB2 hub, which splits the USB2 > bandwidth. > Looking through the supported hardware of freebsd6.x there's a big list of > supported > devices, but none that match hardware vendor websites offhand. I see for > example > the ALi 6+2 port USB 2.0 PCI Card with the ALi M573 chipset and VIA VT6212 > 4+1 > Port USB 2.0 PCI Controller Card with the VIA VT6212 chipset. But these > don't match > anything on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html > > What are the best [most compatible trouble free] USB PCI cards? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >