From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 11:38:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webserver.rtl.org (webserver2.rtl.org [63.94.12.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8F437B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jstewart@rtl.org) Received: from MIS3C.rtl.org ([63.106.163.130]) by webserver.rtl.org (Switch-2.0.0/Switch-2.0.0) with ESMTP id f5PIchn15460; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:38:43 -0400 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010625143153.022f15d8@63.94.12.188> X-Sender: jstewart@63.94.12.188 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:37:42 -0400 To: anderson@centtech.com, j mckitrick From: Jason Stewart Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3B377F42.6EC5E148@centtech.com> References: <20010625191114.A54171@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, in practice, parallel port in ECP mode can be a bit faster than USB. USB has a maximum throughput of 1.5 megabytes per second (900kb/SEC for one device), Parallel port does about 1.2 megabytes per sec. The only way that USB can utilize the full 1.5 MegaBytes/Sec is if you have multiple USB devices. If you only have a single device parallel port can be faster. Cheers, Jason Stewart At 01:13 PM 6/25/2001 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >USB is much faster than parallel ports.. > > >j mckitrick wrote: > > > > It would seem parallel has more throughput, but it might not be so simple. > > Does anyone know how the usb zip compares to parallel port models? > > > > Jonathon > > -- > > Microsoft complaining about the source license used by > > Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology (512) >418-5792 >For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and >wrong. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message