[Coco] [Fwd: Re: The Definitive Post on the CC-Five ;)]

[jdaggett at gate.net]

John

That particular arrangement is well known amoung the Coco community. The 
Cypress chip, SL811HS chip does have some know errata that has some rather 
dubious work arounds. It is a good circuit to use on a single peripheral but does have 
some minor issues when working through certain hubs. Also the auto increment 
feature does not work consistantly. Cypress' work around is not to use it. This can 
slow down transfers.  


james
On 29 Jan 2007 at 17:06, John R. wrote:

> USB host controller is not all that difficult from what I've seen at
> http://microusb.org
> 
> If they can do USB on an 8-bit Atari w/ 6502 it can be done on the
> Coco.
> 
> And the idea that there needs to be a driver per device is a given,
> USB or not. That said, some device "classes" exist like USB Storage
> (basically, SCSI) which work for all USB hard disks and thumb drives.
> There would not need to be a driver for every USB Storage device.
> 
> The other cool thing about USB Storage is that it uses SCSI
> request/response formats so you could leverage existing coco drivers.
> 
> -- John.
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