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EvanW:

Hi all,

With the placement of my computer in a refurbished Golden Tee cab and the design of the CP (I built on the existing design of a pull out CP and flip up lid) my USB cables for my 2 U360's, 3" Happ trackball, USB spinner, ipac4, and PACLED are all too short to reach the computer. I thought about purchasing a powered 7 port USB hub. Because the hub only plugs into 1 USB 2.0 hub on the machine will there be any issues with assigning devices? Or will the machine (XP) see it a USB card? Want to make sure before I pull the plug on 70 bucks.

Thanks for any help,

Evan
 

Le Chuck:

Providing that you don't unplug things there "shouldn't" be issues.  Check out DRVENTURE's troubles with multiple USB and how he resolved it.  I'm working through similar issues right now. 

I assume you don't have 6 USB ports but if you have 4 you may be better off buying extension cables and a 4 port powered hub.  Belkin has one for $19.  The more you can plug directly into the CP the better. 

Spacedueler:

On my modular CP, there are currently several mice, at one time I had 3 joysticks too. PC is running Windows XP Home. Since it's a modular panel, while getting it set up I was always plugging and unplugging devices - so I got pretty familiar how they registered in Mame. Now every thing is configured (i.e. Super Sprint: P1 dial = Mouse 6X, P2 dial = Mouse 5X). Some devices are plugged into the powered usb hub, some are plugged straight to the PC usb ports. It doesn't seem to matter for me if they are plugged into the PC or the hub. What matters is that they are all plugged in when I boot the PC. If I were to power down, change all the devices to different usb ports and then reboot, they always seem to get the same assignment every time. I actually have 2 powered hubs, and it doesn't even matter if they're plugged into one or the other.

What will affect the assignments is removing one device. If power down, remove the mouse that was previously mouse 1, all of the assignments will change on up to the last one (mouse 2 becomes 1, 3 becomes 2 etc.)

HanoiBoi:

You said that length is an issue and gave a list that seems to require 6 ports, but you didn't specifically state the number of ports on your PC.  If you do have enough ports on the PC, longer USB cables is your best bet.

And monoprice would be your best place to start.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=usb+cable&x=0&y=0


nick3092:


--- Quote from: Spacedueler on January 11, 2012, 04:36:25 am ---If I were to power down, change all the devices to different usb ports and then reboot, they always seem to get the same assignment every time. I actually have 2 powered hubs, and it doesn't even matter if they're plugged into one or the other.

What will affect the assignments is removing one device. If power down, remove the mouse that was previously mouse 1, all of the assignments will change on up to the last one (mouse 2 becomes 1, 3 becomes 2 etc.)

--- End quote ---

My experience with my modular panel is that MAME/Windows assign the numbers based on the USB vendor/device ID. The lower the vendor ID, the lower number control it becomes. Doesn't matter what port or hub it's plugged into.

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