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May do better for newer notebooks, but they arleady come with USB 2.0 so what's the use, right. When tried using it on my other older notebook, it would lock the computer due to a driver compatibility. I mostly thought about getting USB 2.0 on my old notebook, but got absolutelly no use out of this unit. Notebook would "loose interest" in this adapter after each time it goes to sleep, and I'd have to reboot it to "find" it again. Not the greatest idea after all, money wasted.
Product of China is all. Now every time I try to use it I get the "CardBus Freeze". The one sent is no name brand and properties says 02micro OZ6912 CardBus. The advertisement for this product shows Sabrent Name. First run went great with my usb WD500 External then first time I unplug my 8GB flash drive it froze. At first installed easy and found it's drivers. I pulled out Cardbus and all is well. Who know's.
I have not used it since and would NOT recommend the item. Very Disappointed. When plugged into port, and in use, the item got very hot. One of the ports was slightly twisted (easily fixed by plugging in a USB memory stick). I received the item about a month before I needed it (so return was out of the question). Disappointed with this item. When I opened the box from Amazon, the package containing the USB port had been obviously opened. It seemed to work, but I took it out of my laptop fearing damage.
It does not find the drivers anywhere. 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. This can be very annoying especially for older systems that don't already have USB and are trying to get it through this mediam.
I found it on Dell site. 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 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. 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. I use the card with iPod 120GB as well as a 600 GB Western Digitial Disk ("My Book"), with both XP and Ubuntu. I have a Dell Inspiron (about 7 years) old. Works at full speed. 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.
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