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PCI USB controller with a kick needed



The goal of all USB 2.0 chipsets is to provide that given the number
of devices connected. so if you end up buying a card with 6 ports just
use a single port on each pair although I doubt very much that the
chip on the card suffers any real performance problems with more than
one device through the same chip.

So I guess what your looking for is a PCI Express (not sure what pci-x
is) card with multiple USB 2.0 chips of which you will use only a
single port per chip.

Seems reasonable given that each usb pair uses it's own chip.

On 16/05/07, Scott R Ehrlich <scott-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The goal, be it a PCI, PCI-e, or PCI-x card, is to permit each port to
> provide dedicated maximum throughput for the device connected to said
> port.
>
> Scott
>
> Quoting Martin Owens <doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
>
> > The problem with your request is that each usb chipset that I know of
> > supports at least 2 each, they seem to always come in pairs and never
> > a single usb port.
> >
> > I suppose you could have a card that only uses one port of each pair,
> > but then your udev/HAL would be a mess.
> >
> > Best Regards, Martin Owens
> >
> > On 16/05/07, Scott R Ehrlich <scott-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a PCI-e or PCI-x USB controller card where each port
> >> on the card
> >> has its own separate processor.   Thus, a 4-port USB card would have 4
> >> processors, 1 each per port.
> >>
> >> Does something like that exist?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Scott
> >>
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