[bookport] Re: Feeling a bit sheepish
- From: Robert Carter <r-carter@xxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:44:40 -0500
Hi All,
At the risk of adding to the confusion, I am using the same cable that came
with my Book Port on both computers with USB 1 and USB 2 without a problem.
Robert Carter
At 11:34 PM 10/5/2004, you wrote:
>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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