[bookport] Re: Feeling a bit sheepish
- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:34:24 -0500
This is interesting. I do have another cable around here that came with my
memory card reader that will fit the book port. Perhaps I will try that. I
did try using both my front usb ports, and the usb ports in back, which are
usb 2.0 ports. I believe the computer at work that does work with the book
port uses USB 1.1 ports, not sure on that though. Perhaps trying another
cable would help.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:28 PM
Subject: [bookport] Feeling a bit sheepish
> Playing with hardware for as long as I have, I should have guessed, I
should
> have known. Cables. About cables. Well, some just break, some perform
> intermittently, others are inappropriate. Recently, I have joined the
group
> of users of BookPort whose computers no longer recognize the device as of
> the most recent version of the firmware. Only one of my six pc's saw the
> BookPort as it should. As it turned out, that one machine had its own u s
b
> cable, I having used another for the remaining five, a cable that has
worked
> flawlessly since I bought it. Well, it don't perform no good no more, or,
at
> least, not with the BookPort. When I moved to another cable, this one said
> to be appropriate for u s b2 devices, all computers saw the b p without
> trouble. I must apologize to the a p h people for having added to their
> headaches. I always change my cables, just in the wholly improbable event
> that they are the cause of a problem.
>
> Although I assume the BookPort to be a u s b1 device, the x p operating
> system does not identify them as such with my computers, all equipped with
> the new, faster u s b2 ports. Does anyone at a p h or on this list know if
> the u s b 1 versus 2 can be at issue here? The cable that has proved
faulty
> became so only as of implementation of the newest firmware, a tad
> coincidental in my view. Tomorrow, I will check the integrity of my
> seemingly faulty cable with a known u s b1 device working from a u s b1
> port.
>
> Again, my apologies for having added to the headaches.
>
> Regards to everyone,
>
> Jerry
>
>
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