>> and then nothing works anymore.
>I feel I have to defend USB here.  Of course, putting EVERYTHING on 
>USB would be utter stupidity.  It's not meant as a replacement for
>SCSI, IDE, or Ethernet.  I know that there are interfaces for both for
>USB, but using those for anything serious would be silly.  USB is
>meant as you bus to connect keyboards, speakers, mice, printers etc.

Its meant to be a cheap way to put EVERYTHING on, for the home user.
Period.

>Using it for disks is madness, in my opinion.
>
Sure is.  But, have you looked at the mag's lately; floppies, zip, etc
all for USB...the hype is there, to get the great unwashed to put it
all on USB..like I said, cheaper ain't neccessarily better..especially
when its cheaper for them, and not better for us.

How would you put a big external disk on an IMac?  Answer; you can't!
Not unless you put it on USB.  How would you put a floppy on an IMac?
if you needed to; USB.

And soon you'll see PC's doin' the same thing...probably next month
as a matter of fact.  No expansion slots; only USB.  It won't be long
in coming...

Great for laptops, if it proves to be reliable enough and rugged, but
I don't like the idea that it'll be that or nothing, unless you pay 
big time...and thats whats gonna happen.

>> the buss....and NOTHING WORKS!
>One device cannot kill the bus.  That's built into how USB works.  Of 

Yeah right, and thats what they said about ethernet too!  Doesn't 
happen much these days, but I was weaned on it, and if you believe
its not possible you're dreamin'

>course, the host controller driver needs to do bandwidth accounting
>to make sure it doesn't happen.

Uh huh, and thats never gonna break is that right?  Like I said, when
it does, NOTHING WORKS!

You made my point.

:)
Paul