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USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 on Asus P4PE with Win98se
In article 3Z9bd.23$GV4.5@amstwist00, Lars-Erik Østerud .@. wrote:
On my P4PE the USB system show up as 3 USB 1.1 controllers/hubs and 1 USB 2.0 controller/hub (even though all ports should have USB 2.0). All devices show up on the USB 1.1 devices (if you check power consumption etc) and I guess that's what it should look like. But is there a way to see if a connected device use 1.1 or 2.0? And - does the P4PE have real USB 2.0 HighSpeed (480 Mbps)? Or should I get a FireWire drive for an external harddisk? I'm having a lot of trouble finding info about Firewire on Win98SE. Maybe there is an OHCI driver in Win98SE but not Win98 - I haven't been able to verify that. If you do go with Firewire, this may help. It is a patch for Safe Removal, for disconnecting a Firewire device while the computer is powered. Later versions of Windows do this by disabling cacheing in the path to the drive, so the plug can be pulled without a problem. http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/d...94/Default.asp Either solution could have performance problems. I tried a Firewire enclosure last year, and it seemed to be limited to 33MB/sec from the IDE interface connector. And, if daisy-chaining Firewire drives, the last drive on the chain gets less bandwidth than the first on the chain - it seems the Firewire packets are stored and forwarded when drives are connected in a chain. That is all I can figure. Whether you use USB2 or Firewire, performance will depend on the bridge chip used to convert from IDE to USB or Firewire. You will need to read some reviews on the various enclosures and which bridge chip they use (Oxford chips are sometimes used for Firewire). I think the best I could do with the enclosures I tried was about 30MB/sec. In any case, Win98SE is going to present a challenge to making this project work. It may in fact be better to buy a PCI card with either Firewire or USB on it, in case the product comes with better support for Win98SE than the P4PE has got. In searching for info for your question, I found a lot of dead ends, so the information end of the project will be the limiting factor. Good luck, Paul |
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