Hi Ralph, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > Two quick questions about the 6501. First: According to the > documentation, it has USB 2.0 ports. But so does the 5501, and on my > 5501 under OpenBSD, the USB ports run at USB 1.0 speed. Which is a > problem, because I need to occasionally connect a USB disk drive for > backups, and at USB 1.0 speed, that takes ludicrously long. So does > anyone know what chipset on the 6501 provides the USB? And maybe even > whether OpenBSD supports that chipset at 2.0 speed? I'm still running > OBSD 4.6, but new 6501's would be installed with version 4.9 (but I > think the USB stack hasn't changed significantly).
Afaik, the net5501 should work just fine at 480 Mbit/sec, having a standard EHCI USB controller, just like the net6501 have standard EHCI controllers.... For net6501 details see the Intel Atom E6xx/EG20T docs. > Second question, probably mostly for Soren: I definitely need 2GB of > memory (unfortunately). Any idea when the 6501 with 2GB will be > available (I only need minuscule quantities: one or two). I vaguely > remember that the first series will be 1GB, and the 1.6GHz/2GB will be > significantly later. We just got the first 120 production net6501-50's, will be ready to ship sometimes next week. The next 600 net6501-50 will start as soon as the first batch have been tested, to ship at the end of August. Then full production run to then start early September, to ship Late September, and will include all three standard versions. Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO & Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
