USB 3.0 not universally backwards compatible

[Perryg114]

I am not liking USB 3.0. All my stuff is 2.0, even relatively new stuff. Over half my 2.0 stuff won't run on a 3.0 port. So this makes half my USB port worthless for all intents and purposes. Is there a way to dumb down the 3.0 port drivers to be more accepting of 2.0 devices. I have this problem with desktop and laptop motherboards.

Perry

 

[Elixer]

What motherboard we talking about ?
AFAIK, if they have the USB 3 logo, then that means that it must support all USB devices...or they lose their license.

 

[Perryg114]

The main one is my new Dell Precision 4600 laptop. Lots of stuff won't work on the two 3.0 ports which is half the USB ports on the laptop. I have an ASUS motherboard that has similar issues with the 3.0 ports.

Perry

 

[Cerb]

What's the Asus board? The Dell should be using a NEC/Renesas chip. All I can say is I just worked on a N5110 with the same USB 3.0 chip, and it worked with a USB mouse, KB, 2 Sandisk thumb drives, and JMicron-based USB/ATA adapter just fine. Now, as far as Windows goes, I only know it saw one of the thumb drives .

 

[KentState]

I've had problems with some of the USB 3 ports on HP laptops. I don't think it's a backwards compatibility issue, but rather immature chipsets.

 

[Perryg114]

Ok well it seems that most of the problems are with the Dell. I could not run one of my Toshiba hard drives on any of the Dell ports, 2.0 or 3.0. However, it runs fine on everything else I have tried. Even my wife's little baby Acer craptop. It would have to pic the hard drive that had all the movies on it for watching on trips.

Perry

 

[shortylickens]

I've not yet had an issue. Using a western digital 2 port PCIe card, a Jtech 4 port hub, and a Transcend card reader. They all work fine.

Everything else I own is USB 1 or 2 and they all work fine thru the hub as well.

My laptop has a single USB 3 port and I havent stuck everything in there but the few things I've tried always work.