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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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USB 3.1 Gen II - if there are two attached Gen I devices, will it allocate 5Gbps to each?

Most USB PCIe add-on cards are single chipset and the ports share the available bandwidth. Theoretically, if I have two USB 3.1 Gen I devices that each can saturate the 5Gbps bandwidth, attaching them to a USB 3.1 Gen I add-on card will limit each…
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Load usbserial twice with different arguments?

I have two USB devices and both require usbserial to be loaded in order to access them. However, One of the devices, a USB GPRS modem requires that it be loaded like this: modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x4400 while the other one loads…
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Read files from an encrypted disk?

Is it possible to read from an LUKS-encrypted disk via the terminal, e.g. by booting from a live Linux system on a USB flash drive and accessing the encrypted host computer's hard drive?
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Is exFAT filesystem a good choice for USB3 HDD connected to a home NAS server on Raspbian?

I have a home NAS on Raspberry PI4 with a USB3 HDD connected. I have a variety of devices with different OSs (Linux, Win and Mac), and I'd like to be able to access that HDD from any of those with a direct USB connection if need be. Which FS should…
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Possible to run a G-Technology G-SPEED Q with only 1x hard drive installed?

I picked up an old G-Technology G-SPEED Q that had had all of it's internal drives removed. It previously held 4x 2TB hard drives that it could run RAID 0 or 5 accessible via USB 2.0, Firewire 800 and eSATA. Is it possible to run a G-Technology…
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DD copy fails because output device path change during copy

I'm trying to copy an external USB hard drive to another using DD. my command: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc conv=noerror,notrunc iflag=noatime status=progress I'm using a live debian 10 distro. During the copy, after some gb copied,the transfert…
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Dell R230, unable to boot from USB

I have a Dell R230. I'm trying to install FreeNAS 11.3 and use an USB stick as boot medium. I tried three different USB sticks (all of which work for booting on other computers): - Kingston DTSE9 G2 USB 3.0 32GB - SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 32GB -…
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Linux How can I find out if the server has USB2 or USB3

I have a server that I do not have documentation and I plan to buy a USB Storage Device that is USB3 and now I want to find out if the server has USB2 or USB3. I tried dmesg | grep usb [ 1.337094] usbcore: registered new interface driver…
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How To Mount USB External Storage Drive on to ESXi 5.5 Host for VM backup

How To Mount USD External Storage Drive on to ESXi 5.5 Host for VM backup? After USB Drive plugin, "esxcli storage core device list" shows there is a usb drive attached. But unable to access it. esxcli storage core device list mpx.vmhba38:C0:T0:L0 …
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Information Security - USB Drives

I have to perform a user information security awareness audit. One of the things is to determine if user's plug in a USB device or not. My first ideal was to have it run a auto run program that has a bat file that records, their username, pc name,…
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HP ProLiant DL365 G5, USB and PS/2 Do not work during Boot

Good evening all, The situation up until the REAL point of failure; Dual Opteron 2300 Quad-Core (I'm not positive but I think theyre running at 2.6Ghz) 24Gb RAM (2Rx4 PC2-5300P-555) (lost 8Gb to a bad stick on Friday) RAID: HP Smart Array…
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HP DL360 G5 and using 3.5" sata drives OR USB

I have a HP DL360 G5 (1x 4core CPU, 4gb Ram, 4x 36gb SAS Hdd's) I am looking for some advice. This server is just for home use to run some VM's with ESXI 5.1 for my home network and some testing of new OS's etc. I would like to be able to add some…
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Clone multiple USB drives at once

I need to clone about 1>100usb drives. Is there any tool or way to clone a few at a time. Thank you
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Using Serial to RJ45 cable to connect to a 3Com switch

I have always use a serial to serial port or serial to usb to connect to switches. Normaly they came with RJ45 to usb cable in cases when I had a RJ45 cable to serial. But now I have 3Com switch that apparently only came with Serial to RJ45 cable…
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How to register a new usb network-adapter in os x (leopard)?

Possible Duplicate: OS X will not register newly installed network adapters I've recently purchased an Edimax 7318usg usb network adapter. I installed the "drivers" for this device and upon finishing the installation, was prompted that after…
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