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Subject: RE: USB port on Cougar - can I get a Hail-Yeah?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:20:05 -0800
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Thread-Topic: USB port on Cougar - can I get a Hail-Yeah?
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From: "Jay Michlin" <jay.michlin@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
	"Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Cc: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>

Andy,

I don't know whether this will be hard or not, but it sounds like a
great idea to me if Brian can make it come true. USB is a hugely
powerful interface, and we can do all sorts of creative things with it.

jay=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:07 PM
To: Brian Stark
Cc: Tim Gardner; Jay Michlin
Subject: USB port on Cougar - can I get a Hail-Yeah?

Hi Brian,

So here I go asking (I'm still inside my honeymoon period) for a USB
port. Does the south bridge (waaay south?) chip support USB?  Or perhaps
there is a bit of space on one corner of the board where a USB host
adapter can be put on the PCIe.

One really excellent use for a USB port is utilizing transportable
storage for baseline copy of mirrors.  Export the volume onto a 750GB
external USB drive, hand it to FedEx, and import it on the other end,
shazaam. Much easier than doing the similar thing with an array.  Of
course if it's a 20TB dataset you'd have to do that 26 times ....

I don't recall mention of a USB port in the docs so far.  Dev could make
excellent use of such a beast as well for many things.  Rescue boot from
an iPod?

Cheers,

a
