From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 11:44:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5850237B405 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 4B96F55407; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF6F51610; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Jason Stewart Cc: , j mckitrick , Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010625143153.022f15d8@63.94.12.188> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 2001-06-25, Jason Stewart scribbled: # 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. Why not go SCSI ;-) -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message