Registered: May 2000
Location: Boulder, CO, USA
Posts: 5

Hi there!
I have a question related to the pending
release of the MP3 player:
Since I am running NT4.0 on my PC, I do
not have the luxury of a USB connection.
So, in order to find out how long
it would take to load 64MB on the player,
I would need to know the max speed of the
serial cradle connection.
Does anyone know?
Thanks

Dave

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Newton is alive!!!

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: McLean, VA USA
Posts: 216

I believe that it is 115K, but I'm not sure if the Palm software utilizes it at this speed or not.

Anyone??

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Have Visor Will Travel!

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

That's a good question... since there is no handshaking in the serial connection and based on what their Developer's Kit information states:

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from Section III - 2 of the DevKit:

The Cradle Connector contains two serial buses that communicate with external devices: a USB
bus and a simple serial bus. The high-speed USB interface is a slave-only interface, providing a
payload bandwidth of up to 400 Kbps between a host PC or Mac and the handheld device. The
serial port provides asynchronous capability to low-speed devices (9600 Kbps or less).

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location:
Posts: 27

I heard that you need to have a usb to use the minijam, that's what's been implied by many innogear articles.

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

A while back I did a Speed Comparison article that compares the Serial vs. USB speeds.

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James Hromadka
VisorCentral.com
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