From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 5 16:58:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13734 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@nepal-7.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.8.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13714; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00901; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:57:13 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:57:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Tom , Atipa , sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: <199708052328.QAA07056@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >> cameras, network cards, cd-roms, DATs, ZIP/Jaz/SyQuest, scanners, > >> printers, etc. > > > Ugh... network cards can pull 10mbs easily, cdroms can do 8mbs and > >higher, Jaz drives can do 16mbs easily, and you are going to put all of > >this stuff on a shared 12mbs bus? Ugh... > > It's pretty unlikely you'll be saturating all those devices at the > _same_ time. And nobody is going to _force_ you to buy USB > peripherals, if you have higher-demand situations. Standard PCI, > SCSI, and in the future FireWire, devices will still exist for server > situations. That and don't most motherboards have two USB busses so you could put the network adaptors on one, and perhaps a cdrom, then the hdds on the other bus and still get decent performance. - alex