Do the 1.25 and 1.42 powermac actually have usb 2.0?

[physicsnerd]

There's is an article on slashdot about the new 1.25 and 1.42 powermacs actually use a usb 2.0 controller. It says that the current OSX drivers only support usb 1.x, however they mention a hack to get usb 2 out of it? Has anyone out there actually done this? Can anyone actually translate the article slashdot is talking about?

Posted by pudge on Saturday April 19, @01:55PM
from the taking-your-word-for-it dept.
RalphBNumbers writes "According to a forum thread at CreateMac, a Korean Mac community, the newer MDD 1.25 and 1.42 GHz dual G4s actually use a NEC PD720101 USB 2.0 controller for their built-in USB. Apple's drivers only support USB 1.x, but you can apparently enable USB 2.0 functionality by using the drivers for a USB 2.0 card from Orange Micro that uses the same NEC controller. YMMV." Is there a translation of any of this, somewhere?

Slashdot article:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2030241&mode=thread&tid=181

The CreateMac article slashdot is talking about:
http://www.createmac.com/html/forum/forum_view1.asp?f_id=23&f_section=desktop

Physicsnerd

 

[scem0]

this has been discussed at length.

The SMP 1.25 & 1.42 GHz Apple PowerMacs came by default with a NEC USB 2.0 controller and no one knew about it. A Korean site broke the news that while these Macs are currently sold as "USB 1.1", in reality they are USB 2.0-capable, missing only the drivers needed to function as such. Some users claim that these drivers work fine with that NEC chipset, as USB 2.0. Caution: Installation on other Mac models could render the system inoperable.

http://www.osnews.com/

 

[iJon]

i started a thread on this about a week ago, we have a good discussion on it right now, come join us.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24572

iJon