--On Monday, August 01, 2005 11:42 AM -0400 Tony Nelson
<tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The main advantage to using a powered hub (from my perspective having done
some Firewire development (on MacOS)) is that when somthing bad happens
and Firewire destroys the Firewire Interface you're hot-plugging something
into, it will be either the device or the hub that is destroyed, not the
computer's motherboard.
Good reason to use optical, esp. in an industrial environment where you
can't trust the other vendor to get his grounds right. It's also not
susceptible to motor noise, so you can run it right next to the motor drive
lines for the robotic handlers.
