From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 15:16:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA08047 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Clark.Net (mail.clark.net [168.143.0.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA08038 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clark.net (root@clark.net [168.143.0.7]) by mail.Clark.Net (8.7.3/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA17324; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:25:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from clark.net (markus@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clark.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id QAA25603; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:25:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199606212025.QAA25603@clark.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Troy Landers , freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: EIDE CDROM, Motherboard & USB questions... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:33:31 PDT." Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:24:57 -0400 From: Mark Plummer Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 3)... > > Also, is there FreeBSD support for the Universal Serial Bus (USB), or > > are there plans to support USB? I am trying to decide if I should wait > > on the new version, the Tyan Tomcat II+ that will have USB built in. > > Never heard of it. In which case, not likely. But if you want to write > a driver for it.... > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > hello, i believe the universal serial bus in question has gone by the name firewire and has a fair bit of backing (which means it has a chance of being ubiquitous someday). i know there's an ieee standard dealing with it (assuming it's what i'm thinking of). basically it's a 10Mb/s bus device supporting 64 "nodes" running on cat5 cable with a somewhat unusual connector on the end. the nodes are intended to be anything from scanners or cameras to regular rs232 serial ports. in short, it has a chance to be the next scsi "for the rest of us". this could be a real boon to those who are constantly fighting the irq crunch. a friend has said that the next generation of intel motherboards will ship with this, and though he's holding his breath (or atleast his purchase), i'm not... markus -- Mark Plummer, markus@clark.net, +1 410 796 1272 ps: a reference: http://www.adaptec.com/firewire/1394main.html. ieee 1394 is the standard for it (draft or proposed maybe, i'm not sure).