USB 2.0 with USB 1.0

[karkarkitkat]

A 3 year old gateway computer has 1.0 USB ports. The owner purchased a CD-Writer with USB 2.0. The connection does not physically fit inot the USB port. Does anyone know of an inexpensive solution to this? (e.g can you purchase an adapter?)

 

[Tezzie]

you can buy a pci usb 2.0 / firewire card Tez

Backups are great but checking if you can restore is more fun.

 

[IRstuff]

You either need a USB-A to USB-B or USB-miniB cable.

USB-B connectors are somwhat trapezoidal in appearance, while mini-B is a squashed version of that.

The original A connector is a rectangular connector, and the mini-A is a smaller version thereof.

The computer might complain about a USB-2 peripheral being attached, but other that slowness, there should be no other issues, particularly with a CD-ROM.

My USB-2 hard drive won't reliably run on any cable longer than about 2 ft.

TTFN

 

[cdogg]

USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports are identical. Are you sure you have the right connector like irstuff mentioned? There are A and B connectors. 'A' connectors are the rectangular ones that plug into the USB port on the PC.

Here's what they look like:

http://www.callcct.com/cgi-bin/cart/wamy.cgi?

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oot=rfoot.html&template=results.html&wfield_1=xgroup&wfield_
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=A-B&sort=sky


~cdogg

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