Re: usb2 and usb3 ports drop samples while recording from airspy to /dev/null

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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:

> On 2014-12-17 18:25, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> > What are we supposed to see?  The lsusb output in the bug report lists 
> > a bunch of devices, but it's not clear which one is the airspy.
> 
> I did not program the tools. But the other devices are keyboard, webcam
> and some USB erupters.

Let me put it this way: Why did you bother to include the "lsusb -t" 
output in the bug report, with no explanation, if readers can't tell 
which device is the one causing your problem?

> > The bug report says there should be 10 M samples per second.  How many
> > bytes are in a sample?  2?
> 
> I and Q samples are two bytes each.

What is an I sample?  What is a Q sample?  Are there any samples that 
aren't two bytes?

You need to keep in mind that the people reading this mailing list know
a lot about USB but don't know anything about Airspy devices.

> > Now, maybe the transfer isn't just raw data.  Protocol overhead would 
> > reduce the total throughput.  But since I don't know what the protocol 
> > is, all I can tell you is the raw data rate.
> 
> I'll ask some usbmon folks to comment.

One of them just did...  :-)

Alan Stern

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