|
Product of China is all. The one sent is no name brand and properties says 02micro OZ6912 CardBus. Who know's. At first installed easy and found it's drivers. Now every time I try to use it I get the "CardBus Freeze". I pulled out Cardbus and all is well. First run went great with my usb WD500 External then first time I unplug my 8GB flash drive it froze. The advertisement for this product shows Sabrent Name.
I have not used it since and would NOT recommend the item. When plugged into port, and in use, the item got very hot. It seemed to work, but I took it out of my laptop fearing damage. Disappointed with this item. Very Disappointed. When I opened the box from Amazon, the package containing the USB port had been obviously opened. I received the item about a month before I needed it (so return was out of the question). One of the ports was slightly twisted (easily fixed by plugging in a USB memory stick).
This can be very annoying especially for older systems that don't already have USB and are trying to get it through this mediam. This is the only item that I have had a problem with, the installation or setup is not on the disk even though it does list my operating system. It does not find the drivers anywhere.
I found it on Dell site. I found a Dell PCMCIA driver upgrade and it fixed the problem.Ubuntu (7.1):Excellent, the card worked on day one, no drivers needed.The downside is that Sabrent has essentially no help on their site and useless information supplied with the product. I almost gave up, but luckily found an entry on someone's web page.The name of the Dell driver for XP is: O2Micro OZ6912 PCMCIA Card Controller Version A01. I have a Dell Inspiron (about 7 years) old. Here is the actually URL that I used:http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx.c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R56900&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4N_2650&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=4700&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=&impid=&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=67982 Works at full speed. I use the card with iPod 120GB as well as a 600 GB Western Digitial Disk ("My Book"), with both XP and Ubuntu. For the iPod, I did have to use the power cable to connect the card to an USB 1 port.Windows XP:Initially I had the same problems as everyone else: whenever an iPod or USB Disk was connected, XP would hang.
Pony up and get a higher priced one. As soon as I inserted it into my laptop, my whole system locked up. As soon as I ejected it, laptop returned to normal.
|
