Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:00:53 -0500
From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 & USB?

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:38:39 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:

>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

Ok. Now does this mean- the slow rate of transfer wouldf cause say a
usb printer not to work or just work slowly?

John



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