Re: detect what type of USB it is connected to

2015-07-15 Thread James
Alan Stern stern@... writes: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, James wrote: I have an external drive that has an activity LED. It would be nice if it told me if it was connected to a USB2 or USB3 port. Is it possible for devices to know what they are connected to? How would you expect the drive

detect what type of USB it is connected to

2015-07-11 Thread James
I have an external drive that has an activity LED. It would be nice if it told me if it was connected to a USB2 or USB3 port. Is it possible for devices to know what they are connected to? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-usb in the body of a message to

Re: detect what type of USB it is connected to

2015-07-11 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, James wrote: I have an external drive that has an activity LED. It would be nice if it told me if it was connected to a USB2 or USB3 port. Is it possible for devices to know what they are connected to? How would you expect the drive to tell you what sort of port it is