On 10/11/15 03:37, Tobias Nygren wrote:
Hi!
I am aware USB 3 is still experimental and barely supported on intel
boards, but I wonder if anyone has investigated support for USB 3 PCI
expansion cards? This would be useful to get USB 3 ports on old
machines that don't have PCI-e.
I have found cards online that use either the FL1000G chip or some
Renesas chip, coupled with a pci-e to pci bridge. I believe both are
supposed to implement xhci. Does anyone know which of these has the
highest chance of working?
Thanks,
-Tobias
USB-3 specificationally supplies data @ ~5X the spec.speed of a PCI bus,
so I wouldn't wait on those cards if you aren't finding them online
somewhere. USB-2 ought to be AOK, 480 Mb/s = 60 MB/s = about 1/2 the
spec. speed of a PCI buss (132 MB/s) ....
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