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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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How to share USB drive via NFS on FreeBSD

I'm trying to share USB hard drive with msdosfs connected like this: mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da1s1 /mnt/usb I can see mounted drive: /dev/da1s1 on /mnt/usb (msdosfs, local) but when I'm trying to share drive via NFS my exports file: /mnt/usb …
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USB Legacy support burning PSU, is it possible?

So one day, the PSU in the machine I was working with decided to blow up. Yes, I heard a pop, and a strong burnt smell. So what happened? What caused it? How can I prevent it? The situation: The PC was NOT running, it was turned OFF It was…
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Fixing permissions on a FAT32 USB-attached hard drive under Vista

There are many times you want to use a USB hard drive to move files between, for exmaple, Vista, XP, Unix, and MacOS. A drive is formatted with FAT32. Files are added and removed under MacOS and XP and Unix. When viewing the drive on Vista, some of…
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Does the VMWare Server 2.0 BIOS support USB?

I have a VMWare Server 2.0 installation. I have a USB hard drive plugged into the host and the USB device attached to a VM. I would like to be able to boot from one of the partitions on my USB drive. Is this possible? From the bit of poking…
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Converter for input (composite USB) and output (2x PS2)

It seems there are plenty of PS/2 to USB converters but want we need is a composite USB input and 2x PS/2 outputs (keyboard and mouse). An example application: a server without USB ports but 2x PS/2 ports. KVM cable is a VGA and composite USB (i.e.…
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How can I convert a USB printer to LPT?

I have an Java enterprise app that only prints to LPT1. The problem is, the only printers available in my company are USB printers. The developers and support staff (InfoSys) for the app all say they require a DOS based printer which I took to mean…
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How are devices handled with Citrix XenApp?

We have an application which interacts with a USB interactive whiteboard. A customer recently asked if our software would work with XenApp 6. I am sure our application will, however the hardware is unknown since I don't know how the client side…
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Whats wrong with my partition table?

I'm a bit lost here. I got my trusty old external 500Gb USB drive but it refuse to mount: I think my partition table is invalid: sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total…
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Sharing a Folder on a USB Drive

I've been running a 5-drive software RAID under Windows 2003 Server. When it fails, it causes really strange problems that are difficult to deduce. After the third occurrence, I've decided to try using a Drobo instead, connected via USB2. The…
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rackmount network USB hubs?

We are virtualizing our license servers and have to start using network USB hubs for the authentication keys. The ones I've found will be messy in a rack. Has anyone ever seen a rackmountable version? If that's not an option, are there any…
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Which is a faster USB protocol RS232 or PS/2

A manufacture just asked me For the USB interface , we have two communication protocols , one is USB to RS232 , one is USB to PS/2 . Which one is faster? This is a USB Devise.
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Disabling USB/removable devices in software

How can I truly disable USB/removable drive support purely with software? On Windows for example I know I could disable the relevant hardware in device manager, and users would not be able to override this. This would work for the most part. What…
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How many usb devices can I connect to a server?

How many USB devices can I connect to a windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 server machine?
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New Raid-1 array rebuilding 2nd time after activation

I created a sofware raid-1 from existing data partition using this howto. Both disks are usb 1TB disks, (each had already two partitions and I used 2nd from each, they have same size) So I simply repartitioned disk B with type fd and created the…
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Boot Linux from big (1.5TB) USB external hard drive

I would like to make a backup solution to be a computer with a single external USB hard drive from which the (1) system boots and (2) stores backups. So in case of any problems with the box, we just move the external hard drive to another box and we…
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