8 May
2007
8 May
'07
3:39 p.m.
Agreed. I *HATE* USB devices. Aside from being a
royal
pain and unreliable, it's definitely not Universal,
and it's not really much of a Bus either. I tried
using external USB 2.0 hard drives on a Macintosh
once, but every time I touched grounded metal (the
case, power strip, keyboard frame) in the vicinity,
all the USB drives unmounted.
Never had problems with them. Also, never had problems with XP **since I
changed my motherboard**, and it's been two years since.
And ever used a really recent PC clone? They have
done
away with almost all I/O. No RS232C, no parallel, no
keyboard or mouse ports, it's all USB. I had to set
one up as a server, and wasted a half a day trying to
get a modem working for the fax dial-in. We couldn't
use the nice external modem because it was RS232C. I
tried a USB->RS232 converter but could never get the
firmware to load properly under Linux. The crappy
internal WinModem wouldn't work under Linux. The
machine has no ISA slots, so no nice hardware internal
modem. Can't find a hardware PCI modem. One of the
guys bought some commercial Linux WinModem driver, and
it almost worked, but was really unreliable.
I have no troubles here using **in winXP** any kind of
serial/parallel/keyboard/mouse/coverters thru USB. But I have a **real
nice** two RS232/422 and 1 LPT board. Works flawlessly. Never had a trouble.
I work with hardware development. Sometimes I need 3 RS232 ports. so what is
the matter?