Allegedly, on or about 18 October 2015, jd1008 sent: > I understand, but I am puzzled why there are cables (as Ed showed) > that have USB A on one end and eSata on the other, without any > protocol converter in between.
Well, I would guess it's either what I said (there's some circuitry embedded in one or both of the connectors on the cable) or what Ed said (the hardware has dual-functionality - in which case I'd only connect the unusual conversion cable to these particular devices, not attempting it with something else). Kind of like the dual-mode USB/PS2 mice and keyboards. They came with an adaptor plug so you could plug it into either the USB or PS/2 port. Sometimes the adaptor had electronics that converted USB to PS/2, emulating the PS/2 mouse or keyboard (so any USB mouse or keyboard could be plugged in a PS/2 port on the computer). Sometimes the mouse or keyboard was dual-purpose, and the adaptor was just one socket wired to the plug, and the mouse of keyboard changed the way it worked depending on it detecting how it was connected (so these adaptors were only of any use with those particular mice and keyboards). My understanding of it is that USB and SATA are electrically different, never mind different in the technique used for how the data goes down the line. I seriously would not expect to be able to simply connect any USB device to any SATA host, or vice versa, by using a cable with nothing other than different plugs at each end. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. If you don't understand how e-mail threading works, then follow the instructions given by those who do, and don't argue with them. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
