Any USB users out there?

[xeron]

Post removed. I was all confused between the Thylacine and the UltraBUS  :-D

[xeron]

Oh wait.. or was it the ultrabus? Yeah.. its the ultrabus that can autoboot USB drives! D'oh!

Isn't there supposed to be an version 2 highway that will support this?

Does anyone know when these are likely to be out? Or should I just get a Spider II and use a floppy that mounts the pen-drive, moves all the system assigns to it, and executes the startup-sequence on it?

[xeron]

When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought that thylacine was a drug :-o

 Heh :-D

Actually, i'm just trying to get all this straight in my head. OK, relative merits of all the solutions:

[color=FF0000]
CARD        USB2.0    Autoboot   Actually released

Spider II   Yes       No         Yes
Thylacine   No        No         Yes
Highway     No        No         Yes
UltraBUS    No        Yes        No
Highway 2   No        Yes        No
[/color]

Hmmm... looks like the 2 that would suit my needs the most arent out yet  :-( However, the Spider would give me USB 2.0, and is cheaper...

Has anyone tried these cards? What do they think? Any unseen drawbacks?

[xeron]

Kronos wrote:
E3B's ALGOR and reworked HighWays can autoboot

Are these available now?

@Jaruzel:

Sure, but i think its a tidier solution to be able to just boot off the pen-drive, if possible.

[xeron]

Ahhhh OK! I think i'll probably go for an Algor then, because I would really like to boot from the USB drive, and secondly, I don't like all the bad blood with Chris Hodges over the Spider range and Poseidon licenses etc.

[xeron]

Well, I've just ordered an Algor from KDH. I just hope it arrives quicker than my AmigaONE  :-o  :-D