20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
8:48 a.m.
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, John Foust wrote:
I recently tried a Belkin USB-to-serial and a second
brand (Amb-something)
on my Win2000 box in hopes of delivering an extra serial port for
my old Palm III. No go! Both blue-screened when Palm Desktop
tried to access the serial port. I suspect that either my motherboard
USB is blown or the drivers didn't like a dual-processor machine.
Most
cheap-brand card drivers have not been tested with SMP
systems, and, often, will blow up on said systems. I have
serial, parallel, ISDN, Ethernet and WiFi USB thingies, and
they all work fine on my (Win2K) laptop.
There are PCMCIA to serial adapters, no? And
we'll be able to
insert PCI serial cards as long as PCI is around.
Yup.
But I'd love to have a USB-to-floppy connection,
too. And we'd all
love it if it was 8", 5 1/4", 3 1/2" and 2" compatible. :-)
I
have one of those. Well, two actually.. one is a regular
USB floppy thinger that came with the lappy (Compaq Armada)
and another one which is larger, but seems to be featuring
a regular floppy interface connector on the inside, so it
*should* be possible to operate that with non-3.5" drives
with some mods..
--f