[linux-audio-user] Re: USB harddisk with USB soundcard????

[Loki Davison]

On 3/25/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
> Ketil Thorgersen hat gesagt: // Ketil Thorgersen wrote:
>
> > I have just bought an Edirol UA25 (in the mail at the moment) and is
> > wondering whether or not to by a USB harddisk. Will this work or will
> > they disturb each other somehow?
>
> Most modern machines have two or more USB busses. If you connect the
> devices to different busses, they should work at the same time just
> fine. However connected to one bus, you will probably run into
> problems especially with the bandwith. Even audio alone can saturate a
> USB1.1 connection completely.
>
> Ciao
> --
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
>

The harddrive will/should be on usb2 and the audio will be usb 1,
therefor different busses/controllers. I've had this working before
with my former dodgy laptop where i had midi keyboard, main hardrive,
sound card and mouse connected to my usb port. ;-)

Loki