Re: [G] Internal USB and Firewire

[Jesse Stanford]

They put them there, more or less, just because they can :)  When they 
were mentioned on computers, the reason was, as I remember, 'for any 
possible future use of internal hard drives that use the firewire or 
usb bus'.  Just a word of advice, is that if your USB or firewire card 
is a 2+1 or 3+1, the +1 refers to the internal port, meaning that you 
cannot use the last external and the internal port at the same time, as 
they are just wired together.  One lister pointed out that an internal 
USB or firewire port would be a good way to plug in a 802.11b 
(wireless) or bluetooth adapter.
Jesse
On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:49 AM, John C. Swanson wrote:

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Subject: [G] Internal USB and Firewire
Folks,
  I keep seeing internal connectors on USB-2 and
Firewire PCI cards.  What can use those?  Ultra ATA or
something?  And how d'you hook it up?  Anyone tried
this as an additional/alternate ATA bus (did it work?)
?
  Thanks for any clues...
Jim
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They do make Firewire or USB to ATA adapters that you can just plug 
into
the the back of a drive but it would make more sense just to put in a
ATA or SATA controller card for drives.  They are mainly there to
connect up to a front mounted port or one of the flash card reader
devices.

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