On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Alan Stern wrote:
> On the third hand, who would ever make an embedded hub with only one, > fixed downstream port? Why not leave out the hub and attach the upstream > port directly to the downstream device? Power Quotient International Co., Ltd has. I have here a flash drive, which contains an embedded 1-port hub. We got it once from a complaining client, who failed to boot our board form it; of course, bios was not prepared to handle such a beast. Perhaps the reason for such a design was to hide hardware bugs in storage chip. The drive is guite some years old, but its size is 256MB. So maybe the storage size outweighed the added price back then. Olav ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
