iPod Nano

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:10:31PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> [chris at p733 ~]$ /sbin/lspci -vv -s 0:1f.4
> 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 
> (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2411
>        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>        Latency: 0
>        Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 16
>        Region 4: I/O ports at 2440 [size=32]

So yes, UHCI is USB1.  So max 12Mbit speed, which means a bit less than
1MB per second transfer speed to an ipod.  That makes loading even an
old 512MB ipod take quite a while.  A USB2 PCI card is a cheap way to
solve that.

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Len Sorensen
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