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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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VMWare Server w/USB 2.0 Scanner blue screening

I am running a VMWare Server 2.0 with guest OS of Windows XP SP3. I have a NeatCo scanner hooked up via USB 2.0 port. Since VMWare server 2.0 now supports USB 2.0, I am able to get the scanner to be recognized by the guest OS. When I go to scan,…
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How to remount unmounted USB drive in Windows?

How to remount USB drive in Windows after it was unmounted, without unplugging and replugging again?
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Boot Debian Linux from image on external USB drive

I have an external USB hard drive with one big VFAT partition. In order to run Linux occasionally on a Windows system, I'd like to maintain a Debian Linux installation in one big file (say debianroot.img) on the VFAT partition of the external hard…
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Linux raid with a flaky usb drives (bus?)

I have a raid with two USB drives in a mirroring setup. It works pretty well, but the USB bus is pretty flaky and about once a week, for reasons unknown to me (apparently nothing relevant in the logs) a drive will disappear and come back on a…
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VM VirtualBox, Ubuntu 9.10: USB memory stick and SD card not detected

I have installed Ubuntu9.10 on VM VirtualBox, on my HP laptop. My laptop has several USB ports and also a SD card port. Unfortunately, I'm unable to access both, my pen-drive on the USB port and my 8GB SD card inserted in the SD Card port. Can…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Keyboards

I have a machine with WIN server 2008 R2 installed, when the machine boots up, it says keyboard failure. The keyboard I had was from an older machine and was PS/2, I got a PS/2 to USB converter in order for it to work, but it says keyboard failure…
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Missing NIC and USB devices

Coming into work today, I've found we have a few different computers (different companies/networks/OS versions - all windows based) that are all having the same issue. 1) Network NIC is not able to be viewed from network connections. If you…
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Uninstall USB storage device driver [USBSTOR.*]

How do I remove the USB storage device driver from Windows XP, such that the next time a USB storage device is plugged in the Plug-and-Play infrastructure will install the driver before mounting the device? I tried deleting USBSTOR.SYS, but Windows…
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Automated mechanism to disable USB storage media + log attempted mounts?

I need some help putting together the pieces to do this: Run a script or program that disables USB storage devices. Log any blocked device mounting to the system event log. Run a second script or program (or cancel the running program from step 1)…
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USB3 HDD write speed Debian 11 vs Ubuntu 22 (ESXi 7.0U3 VMs)

I have two VMs running on an ESXi 7.0U3g host. Both VMs are installed on an NVMe datastore (FYI for comparison below, note "usbspeed" vs "nvmespeed" tests), and have identical configuration: CPU: 8 Memory: 16GB SCSI Controller: LSI Logic…
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Usb hard drive not detected at all by lsusb, fdisk, and not in /dev

This is on Ubuntu server 20.04 Used to work, then the HDD mount point wouldn't open suddenly so I unmounted it, seemed to fail from logs, and after the restart not detected. It's detected in other machines, haven't tried it on other Linux machines…
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USB peripherals reconnecting and finally disconnecting when on battery power with CyberPower CP1500EPFCLCD UPS

The following happens with my brand new, fully charged CP1500EPFCLCD UPS by CyberPower if I cut power to it (with the home circuit breaker): After a few seconds, my USB mouse starts reconnecting (i.e. stops working and then starts working again)…
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rode podcast microphone not working on ubuntu 22.04

I'm running ubuntu 22.04 and have just plugged in an somewhat old rode podcaster microphone. ( I actually have two of these and have tried both with the same results). The microphone is showing up in the Sound settings as an input device. However,…
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Is there a way to power down/reset a USB port if it or a device attached has issues?

I've got an issue with some hardware in a test lab that, when the device being tested has an issue, it seems to "crash" the USB controller, causing the port to not show devices connected...however it gets worse. If the Server the device is attached…
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How to Isolate USB devices that are attached to kubernetes pods running with privileged mode

K8s Node has 10 pods running. The current issue is if I attach a USB to any one pod that is visible on all other pods running on the same Node. I am looking for a solution to isolate the USB that should only be visible to the pod I am attaching.
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