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Re: USB PCI card to buy



On Tue,07.Apr.09, 13:35:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr.
> 
> Do they all "just work" now?
> 
> I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has
> an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's:
> 
> 	PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset
> 
> 	PCI330USB2 4-port (3+1) with NEC D7201026c chipset
> 
> 	PCI 220USB 3-port (2+1) with VIA VT6202 chipset.
> 
> in sort of this order of preference.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Things to avoid?  

The only chipsets available here are the VIA and some ALi. First I 
bought an ALi, but it was very bad, I got a lot of errors and the 
external drive wouldn't work properly. I exchanged it with a VIA card 
and all is well now. That machine runs 2.6.26.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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