Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:01:48 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] slow

john wrote:
> 
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:01:22 -0600 (GMT+6)
> From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LIB] slow
> 
> Hi Phillip
> 
> I guess this will be my last post on this -- I need to get some stuff
> done:). See below.
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:03:25 +0100
> > From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [LIB] slow
> >
> > john wrote:
> >>
> >> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 05:29:12 -0600 (GMT+6)
> >> From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: Re: [LIB] slow
> >>
> >> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

<snip>
:
> >>> I got no USB on my Lib (no EPR, no USB card either).
> >>
> >> On both the 100 and 110 1.1 usb is native. you just need to plug in a
> >> connector to the docking port plug.
> >
> > I got no docking station, just the port replicator :-(
> >
> you don't need the dock. if you check the 100 maintence manual it shows
> the pinout for the usb. you just need to connect to those four pins and
> you have it.

Sure, but how? in practice?
Wasn't there supposed to be an extra chip in the dock to add the full
USB capacity? And isn't there any buffering needed on the EPR/dock
connector? I remember some discussion on this in the list a year or so
ago.

And.... all operating systems I've installed on my Lib (with just an
EPR) never ever detected any USB. If only a connector would be lacking,
I'd think at least some USB components would have been detected.

 
.....<long snip>
:
> > - max 2 MB video memory and max 64 MB RAM apparently were quite
> > reasonable in 1998, but a stupid 16-bit ISA bus for IDE while PCI was
> > firmly established in 1997 or so, polled IRQ for the PCMCIA slots, buggy
> > ACPI and buggy BIOS int13 extensions are simply technical deficits.
> >
> 
> true..however::::)))there once again is the dock. It has a connection on
> the pci buss. Now an ingenous person could do a little rigging and provide
> a pci IDE hard drive port::::::::))))). the ram can be upgraded although
> edo is pretty much finished buthere is still some availible in sticks and
> such. a lot of old equipment still uses it.

That would be a very clever trick......
Time for everyone to try to get a docking station?
Although lugging that around is a bit of a hassle....


Philip


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