[wdvltalk] RE: OT: need advice ref adding external hard drive

2003-11-18 Thread Linden, Todd
Deb, You do not need any special hardware or cables. If you have USB 1.1, your devices will all run at the 1.1 speed. The beauty of USB is that you can keep adding devices and adding and adding and adding... I think the USB limit is 27 devices for 1.1 and something like 256 on 2.0. USB and

[wdvltalk] RE: OT: need advice ref adding external hard drive

2003-11-18 Thread puterbug
At 08:34 AM 11/18/2003, you wrote: Deb, You do not need any special hardware or cables. If you have USB 1.1, your devices will all run at the 1.1 speed. The beauty of USB is that you can keep adding devices and adding and adding and adding... I think the USB limit is 27 devices for 1.1 and

[wdvltalk] RE: OT: need advice ref adding external hard drive

2003-11-18 Thread Linden, Todd
So my USB2 cable to my printer is a waste because it's running at USB1 speed, correct? It's a USB2 cable but I'm fairly certain the port on the back of the puter is USB1 but the connector on the printer uses USB2. Yes, it is running @ USB 1.1 speed. So typical. You probably wanted a cable for

[wdvltalk] RE: OT: need advice ref adding external hard drive

2003-11-18 Thread puterbug
At 08:55 AM 11/18/2003, you wrote: Yes, it is running @ USB 1.1 speed. GR! So typical. You probably wanted a cable for the printer and they promptly showed you to the best we have and it would be USB 2.0 (and more $$$). Thankfully they are backward compatible. Well, not exactly. I