[geeks] Purely out of curiosity... USB with 5 pins?

Alois Hammer aloishammer at casearmour.net
Fri Apr 4 14:48:36 CDT 2008


I'm curious to know: why the proliferation of USB (especially MiniUSB)
connectors with five pins?  Does the extra help coax more power out of
uncooperative root ports?  All the root port pinouts I've seen are still
four-pin, and I don't see references to "USB 2.1" anywhere...



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