So this has wildly gone in a direction that I don't have a need (or probably a care) for. Does anyone have some recommendations for a PCI USB card that will work in a G4 MDD running 10.4.11?
Thanks > From: lgers...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: USB Hub versus PCI Card? > Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:39:50 -0400 > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > > > > On May 18, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > On May 18, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Ken Daggett wrote: > > > >> > >> Thus, plugging in a hub took one "allocation" and each port of > >> the hub got one. I have never seen a USB hub with more than > >> 4 ports. Seemed to make sense. > > > > Well it was wrong. > > > > I have one 5-port and one 7 port USB hub at home. > > > > You can still buy 7-port USB hubs : > > > > <http://www.everythingusb.com/belkin_7- > > port_plus_usb_2.0_hub_12907.html> > > If I remember my USB voodoo correctly, the USB standard allocates > 100ma to each device that it recognizes on a USB chain, whether or > not it needs it. The USB standard calls for a total of 500ma > available at each port. So once you have 4 devices plugged into a > hub, that is the total of 5. > > Any more than 4 devices on one UN-POWERED hub, and things MIGHT start > to get flaky. That is why most hubs with 5 or 7 (or more) ports come > with a wall wart to supply the additional power. > > As long as you are using powered usb hubs, you can get out to 127 > devices. I seem to remember one of the Mac magazines gathered all the > usb devices that they could when they got the first iMac, and they > hooked up over 20 devices cause that was all they could gather. > > Len > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
