Gene Heskett wrote: >On Sunday 07 December 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > > >>Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >>>I went out to Wallies tonight to get some pills and looked the electronics >>>dept. over pretty carefully, but nothing was labeled as 'PC', just PS2-3 >>>and XBox, with one WII thrown in for good measure. And none were >>>'gameport' interfaces. >>> >>>I also checked the TigerDirect catalog and came up empty. >>> >>>So where would I look next to find one of these gismo's? >>> >>> >><http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826127204> >> >>I think that's the one - dual analog sticks, dual 4-direction "joypads", >>multiple other buttons. >> >> >> >And its USB. I thought that was a no-no on an emc machine? > > Plugging and unplugging USB devices is generally a bad idea, I think. That causes a re-assignment of ID numbers across the entire USB controller. I'm not sure if the higher speed bulk modes used by flash devices are also a problem (I keep remembering that I saw issues with kjournald on an IDE flash disk), and I think the problems people have pointed out were all using USB storage devices.
I use a USB mouse on most systems, and even a USB keyboard on some. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
