Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:18:39 +1100 From: Dean Hamstead <dean@bong.com.au> To: MC <rossiya@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best USB PCI Card Message-ID: <440B9BFF.2010503@bong.com.au> In-Reply-To: <28a99ba50603051813o18b30df3t1df3e3bb9a9a6347@mail.gmail.com> References: <28a99ba50603051813o18b30df3t1df3e3bb9a9a6347@mail.gmail.com>
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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" >
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