[ltp] Re: is my usb controller dead?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Bernhard Sputh wrote:
> Nevertheless, the electrical specifications should not have changed between 
> USB 0.9, 1.0, 1.1 and USB 2.0, so I still don't understand why the USB 
> circuitry of the newer models seems to fry more easily than in the old 
> models.

They probably don't have good enough static-discharge protection, and the
new USB2 driver ASICs (or whatever sits right behind the USB connector) may
be far more sensitive to it than the old USB1.1 ones.

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