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

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