Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with "3 USB ports" on the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does system profiler say that I have 4 "USB Bus" and 1 "USB High-speed Bus"? equalling 5 usb busses all together? and I thought ALL of the 3 that I do have were

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jason Brown
On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with "3 USB ports" on > the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does > system profiler say that I have 4 "USB Bus" and 1 "USB High-speed > Bus"? equalling 5 usb busses all t

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jason Brown wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> >> Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with "3 USB ports" on >> the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does >> system profiler say that I have 4 "USB Bus

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jason Brown
> Jason, please keep in mind that system profiler only "sees" those USB > ports available to it. Thus, if the keyboard is NOT plugged in, you > will not see those ports. So, back to the drawing table. Jeff > Ahhh, that is too true. I apologize for misinformation then. Jason --~--~-~--

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Clark Martin
Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jason Brown wrote: > >> >> On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >> >>> Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with "3 USB ports" on >>> the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does >>> system profile

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bob Whiton
At 9:11 AM -0700 10/23/09, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >Funny thing... I have an early 2005 Powermac G5 with "3 USB ports" on >the tower itself. Two on the rear and one on the front. Why does >system profiler say that I have 4 "USB Bus" and 1 "USB High-speed >Bus"? equalling 5 usb busses all together?

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Gerome
s of that computer??? CoolKat -Original Message- >From: Jason Brown >Sent: Oct 23, 2009 2:35 PM >To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: Question about USB ports? > > > >> Jason, please keep in mind that system profiler only "sees" those USB >> po

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > > There is a USB diagnostic tool, part of XCode, that is more detailed > and > technical but less confusing once you get past the details. IIRC > when I > looked with that it was clear, but it's been a while since I did that > and I can't

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > I believe its called USB Prober.app. Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg on my Leopard install disk and there was no USB Prober.app there? ideas? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because y

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > >> I believe its called USB Prober.app. > > Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg on my Leopard install disk and > there was no USB Prober.app there? ideas? When you install the Devel

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> >> >> On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: >> >>> I believe its called USB Prober.app. >> >> Looked at what's in the XcodeTools.mpkg on my Leopard install disk >> and >

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 23, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> >> On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: >>> I believe its called USB Prober.app. >>> >>> Looked a

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: >> >> When you install the Developer tools, it's in the /Developer/ >> Application/Utilities folder. >> > > Just as an FYI ... After installing XcodeTools.mpkg today, I see its > 2.41GB in size. You can reduce this remarkably by doing a custom

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Lawrence David Eden
My G4 has USB 1 and I added a USB 2.0 card in one of the PCI slots. When the G4 is sleeping with a device (iPod) connected, the OS thinks that the device has been improperly removedeven though the device is still connected to the port. So my question is this: what devices benefit most fro

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Paul Kemner
Keyboard and mouse are probably the slowest. A printer is also pretty slow, but a faster transfer will speed things up if it has a memory buffer and you're printing multi-page documents and/or graphics. Midi would be faster. If you've got a usb drive you will want data transfers as fast as possible

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Richard Gerome
-Original Message- >From: Lawrence David Eden >Sent: Oct 24, 2009 7:52 AM >To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: Question about USB ports? > > >My G4 has USB 1 and I added a USB 2.0 card in one of the PCI slots. >When the G4 is sleeping with a device

Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread John Niven
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Paul Kemner wrote: > Midi would be faster. This is a timely reply, Paul. I was just going to ask a question. I'm an Ableton Live user. My "studio" setup is XP PC based because it was available, and I needed something that would take the 5V PCI interface card for an M-Aud

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Geoff Black
Pre Sonus make a good firewire interface for midi. Firewire 400 and SPDIF plus live instrument inputs - mixer - with 48v mic input booster. I use it on CME keyboard - works on G4 MDD and Tiger - also runs on G5 quad. Rgds Geoff b On 24 Oct 2009, at 5:15 PM, John Niven wrote: > > --- On Sat,

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-24 Thread Dana Collins
On 10/24/09 11:57 AM, Geoff Black of bla...@telkomsa.net sent > > Pre Sonus make a good firewire interface for midi. Firewire 400 and > SPDIF plus live instrument inputs - mixer - with 48v mic input booster. > I use it on CME keyboard - works on G4 MDD and Tiger - also runs on > G5 quad. >

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread John Niven
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Dana Collins wrote: > On 10/24/09 11:57 AM, Geoff Black of bla...@telkomsa.net > For what its worth, > PreSonus and M-Audio are your best bets for a small FW > interface, Thanks Geoff and Dana. There was some confusion. My basic problem is that my 876MHz G4 12" PB only ha

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Mike
Hi John, Could you let us know how you get on with that interface? I've been looking at them on and off for a while but haven't made a decision on anything yet Cheers Mike On 27 Oct 2009, at 14:06, John Niven wrote: > > --- On Sat, 10/24/09, Dana Collins wrote: >> On 10/24/09 11:57 AM, Ge

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:06 AM, John Niven wrote: > > PS I'm surprised that there are not more music makers on this list. Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but its in a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ... and really just started to work after replacing my mobo (did

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread John Niven
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly wrote: > Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but > its in a  Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ... Actually This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. I do have the same PCI card (got cheaply from local Craigslist) and I was usi

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:13 AM, John Niven wrote: > > --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly wrote:. > > In either case I guess I made the right decision to go with a > firewire interface. It will either work ok with my PB now or a new > one latter. I will report back latter. > >> Its USB 1.1 an

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-27 Thread Dana Collins
On 10/27/09 11:13 AM, John Niven of sense...@yahoo.com sent > > --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly wrote: >> Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but >> its in a  Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ... > > Actually This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. I do ha

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-28 Thread John Niven
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins wrote: > Atari 1040ST - yumm! I remember seeing one of them handling > Master-Tracks Pro (I think that was it) which was available only for > Atari and Mac. Yes my first real computer was a 1040STe. It had built in midi ports. At the time I was interested in h

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 28, 2009, at 1:07 PM, John Niven wrote: > > --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins wrote: > >> Like Bill, my home unit has an M-Audio 2496 (so I can run >> an M-Powered version of ProTools). > > My Xserve G4 won't sleep with it in. Do you have the same problem? Same issue here ... M-Audio a

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-30 Thread Dana Collins
On 10/28/09 1:07 PM, John Niven of sense...@yahoo.com sent > > --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins wrote: >> Atari 1040ST - yumm! I remember seeing one of them handling >> Master-Tracks Pro (I think that was it) which was available only for >> Atari and Mac. > > Yes my first real computer wa

Re: Midi interfaces. Was: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-30 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Dana Collins wrote: > > Hi John, > Thanks for the responses. My G4 (DA) also had some sleep issues re: > the > M-Audio 2496, but I attributed that to the upgraded processor > (1.5GHz) that > was also part of the mix. My fix was to move up to a 1.6GHz G5. I just c