[plug] USB2.0 PCI & Linux

[Trevor Phillips]

On Monday 31 May 2004 17:54, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> I have an NEC, VIA and ALi and all three of them kick along quite happily.
>
> It is generally regarded as good advice to steer clear of the VIA chips if
> it's possible. ALi and NEC seem to be pretty well regarded and supported.

Thanks for the info! The one I'm looking at is apparently an NEC chipset.

On a related note, any idea why I'd only be getting about 300k/sec writing to 
a USB HDD over USB1.1? I mean, if it's a 12Mbit bus, I'd hope for at least 
1MByte... (Not that it'll matter once I get the USB2.0 card ^_^)

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