Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > But the USB bus is the only one of those you put random peripherals into.
Two words: firewire. Off of the top of my head: PCI: video card; scshi host adapter; ethernet; sound card; IDE controllers; SATA controllers; serial/parallel port expansion cards; USB host adapters; media readers; iSCSI adapters; fibre channel adapters; token ring adapters; ATM adapters; FDDI adapters ISA: video card (very very legacy); scsi host adapter; ethernet; sound card AGP: video card (okay, so not many random devices!) SCSI: disks; tape drives; scanners Serial: pointer devices; X10 adapters; palm pilots; printers Parallel: printers; scanners Seems a lot of busses are used for random devices. Some of these can even be hotplugged (SCA drives on your SCSI chain). There are other busses that are that are entirely hot-pluggable also (serial). I'l conceede that USB is a more complex than PS2. I suspect that USB is less complex that PCI. For my purposes, I do not see any argument against USB mouse, other than a slow USB device will slow down the whole USB chain. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
