Just as an FYI on this topic, I bought some combo USB/Firewire cards at a local PC show a while back. They had no identifiable brand name that I can recall, but they came in blue boxes, and were fairly cheap ($15-$25).
They DID NOT work. Using USB 2.0 with my iPod gave all sorts of errors. Firewire worked a little better, but not much. About half the time, Windows would tell me my iPod was corrupted and I should restore it to "factory settings". Yeah, right. When they did work, they were much slower than they should have been. I finally got a new motherboard with built-in USB 2.0 and Firewire and once I got the drivers settled, all of the problems went away. So stick with known brands for this. The cheap cards still seem to have problems. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Gregg C Levine > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Linux on Intel; > > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > Let's see.... The only brand I can think of, that is its available > practically everywhere is Belkin. They make excellent USB cards. > They've had a USB 2.0 one out for a while now in fact I had bought a > USB 1.1 card from them at the same time they brought out their USB 2.0 > one. Depending on how quickly you would need the thing, you can either > buy it directly. That is from their website, www.belkin.com or from > any Staples or other such distributor. Their site will give > suggestions. > --- > Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > > Clark, Douglas > > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [LINUX-390] Linux on Intel; > > > > I have a dual boot Intel box running Windows 2000 sp 4 and SuSE > Linux > > Enterprise version 9.0. See the output of "uname -a" below. > > > > uname -a > > Linux tsglnux1 2.6.5-7.244-default #1 Mon Dec 12 18:32:25 UTC 2005 > i686 > > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > This Linux box does not have USB 2.0 and I would like to add a PCI > card > > into the system which is supported by both Windows and Linux. I use > > this Intel box as my You server that I update my mainframe Linux > > environments. What I want to do is backup the internal hard drive > on > > the Intel box to an external USB hard drive but with the amount of > data > > the time it takes over USB 1.1 is over 28 hours! > > > > Does anyone have a USB 2.0 PCI card they would recommend running in > an > > Intel box that supported Linux? > > > > TIA > > > > Doug > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > > 390 or visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
