Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 05:44:58 +0000
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 & USB?


>Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:35:47 -0500
>From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 & USB?
>
>
><snip>
> >
> >There main problem with USB cards seems to be that the maximum data rate 
>is
> >too low on the sixteen bit systems. According to the PCMCIA-CS howto, the
> >maximum rate is only about 2-3Mb/s, irrespective of the hardware.
>
>Is that simply to keep to specs? Or would it cause tranmission
>problems?
>

I think that's the maximum rate the processor can get data to the bus. 
There's no DMA AFAIK, and it's a slow 16-bit bus. It doesn't cause errors on 
even a 100M network card, it just can't use all the available network 
bandwidth (though the data it gets is still noticably faster than with a 
10M).

I suspect the timing requirements for USB are not meetable.

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