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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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Connect up to 127 USB devices MY ASTERISK! Mine gives up after about 4!

Oh the dream of connecting 127 devices at once! It'd be a dream if I could connect even...say..more than four... I have a Belkin USB hub with 7 ports on it. At any given time I can get about four of them to work. (Actually, all the ports work,…
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TCP/IP Printing Issue in Windows Server 2008

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 Entrprise in a VM on my laptop. I am having problems setting up a printer. It's an HP PSC 1355 - drivers were installed automatically when I plugged the device into a USB port. I enabled the Print and Document…
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Slow backup rate for fileservers using external hdd

I inherited a backup plan from the previous sysadmin that looks like this: Backup each 150GB of data from two fileservers to two 3.5in external harddrive (USB 2.0) by mapping the data partitions to our quad-core Dell R200 server (Windows Server…
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Miroring usb drives (master/slave, booting linux from them)

I have a small server that boots from a usb drive and i would like to protect myself from the drive dying. I can't add another hard drive. My question is: can i add one or two usb sticks of the same size and mirror the first one, so i can just…
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What software can I use to send a USB device over the network from a debian server to a windows client?

I have a netbook with not much power, 1GHz CPU & 1G memory. I'd like to install a headless linux to it, either Debian or TinyCore, both of which use aptitude & dpkg. I'm not sure which package has a server to run in Debian and a client that can run…
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USB drive only for Linux backups: To partition or not to partition?

I have a 2TB USB drive plugged into CentOS 5.5 that will be formatted with ext3 and will only be used for file-level backups. I've always partitioned my drives but a while ago when I had setup Amazon EBS the docs said to just format the whole device…
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VMWare Server w/USB 2.0 Scanner blue screening

I am running a VMWare Server 2.0 with guest OS of Windows XP SP3. I have a NeatCo scanner hooked up via USB 2.0 port. Since VMWare server 2.0 now supports USB 2.0, I am able to get the scanner to be recognized by the guest OS. When I go to scan,…
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How to remount unmounted USB drive in Windows?

How to remount USB drive in Windows after it was unmounted, without unplugging and replugging again?
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Boot Debian Linux from image on external USB drive

I have an external USB hard drive with one big VFAT partition. In order to run Linux occasionally on a Windows system, I'd like to maintain a Debian Linux installation in one big file (say debianroot.img) on the VFAT partition of the external hard…
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Linux raid with a flaky usb drives (bus?)

I have a raid with two USB drives in a mirroring setup. It works pretty well, but the USB bus is pretty flaky and about once a week, for reasons unknown to me (apparently nothing relevant in the logs) a drive will disappear and come back on a…
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VM VirtualBox, Ubuntu 9.10: USB memory stick and SD card not detected

I have installed Ubuntu9.10 on VM VirtualBox, on my HP laptop. My laptop has several USB ports and also a SD card port. Unfortunately, I'm unable to access both, my pen-drive on the USB port and my 8GB SD card inserted in the SD Card port. Can…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Keyboards

I have a machine with WIN server 2008 R2 installed, when the machine boots up, it says keyboard failure. The keyboard I had was from an older machine and was PS/2, I got a PS/2 to USB converter in order for it to work, but it says keyboard failure…
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Missing NIC and USB devices

Coming into work today, I've found we have a few different computers (different companies/networks/OS versions - all windows based) that are all having the same issue. 1) Network NIC is not able to be viewed from network connections. If you…
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Uninstall USB storage device driver [USBSTOR.*]

How do I remove the USB storage device driver from Windows XP, such that the next time a USB storage device is plugged in the Plug-and-Play infrastructure will install the driver before mounting the device? I tried deleting USBSTOR.SYS, but Windows…
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Automated mechanism to disable USB storage media + log attempted mounts?

I need some help putting together the pieces to do this: Run a script or program that disables USB storage devices. Log any blocked device mounting to the system event log. Run a second script or program (or cancel the running program from step 1)…
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