I have seen two real-world uses for an internal firewire port, 1 being a PC with a front firewire port on the the panel, that connected to a firewire PCI card with the port facing "inside" the second being the fire dtv satellite and cable tuner "inside models" of their firewire digital tuners. they mounted in a pci port for stability, but connected to the inside firewire port.
USB on the other hand, never seen a use for it, but I can imagine if people maybe wanted to build some kind of display on the front of the computer, like on those home theatre PCs perhaps? I wouldn't mind having one actually to mount SNES controller ports onto the front of a computer panel, but that would be a home-brew hacking project... so I guess its a feature to advertise to hackers :-) On 19 February 2011 06:22, Andrew Tett <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a good question. I have wondered this, too...? > > Andrew > > > On 17 February 2011 16:57, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I bought a PCI express card with USB ports for my Mac Pro. It has 4 >> outside and 1 inside. >> >> I can't work out why I would want the internal one or be able to use it. >> Am I missing something obvious?;) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
