[bookport] Re: Feeling a bit sheepish
- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:31:41 -0500
Actually, I did decide not to do this after sending the other message. Often
changing settings like this can make windows unstable which I would rather
avoid, smile. Until there is a fix, I will simply send files to the unit
from my work computer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 7:20 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Feeling a bit sheepish
> Don't do this. If you do and you connect a USB 2.0 device, it won't work.
As
> I said yesterday, 2.0 is backward-compatible with 1.1, so when set up for
> 2.0, both USB formats will function, but not vice-versa.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:05 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Feeling a bit sheepish
>
>
> You know there is a setting in my bios that controls USB, of course, it's
> currently set for 2.0. However, there is a 1.1 setting also, I wonder if
> changing that would make a difference. The computer that the book port
does
> work on at work is using 1.1 I think. I'll have to try changing that
setting
> that I have a bit of sighted help, since that does not talk.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:35 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Feeling a bit sheepish
>
>
> > The Book Port is a USB 1.1 device. This is very interesting!
> >
> > >>> jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx 10/05/04 10:28PM >>>
> > 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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