Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:38:39 -0600 (MDT)
From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 & USB?

In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
            John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: >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? 

It has to do with bus timing.  On the Libretto, you are limited to a
little over 1MB/s because the bridge chip is on the ISA bus (it being
a Cirrus Logic CL-PD6722).

Warner



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