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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:07:24 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@onstor.com>, Jay Michlin
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Subject: USB port on Cougar - can I get a Hail-Yeah?
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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
