Saturday, December 02, 2017

Re: pcengines apu boards

On 1/12/17 11:48 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>> From: Eike Lantzsch
>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:12 PM
>>
>> here: APU2C4 with one SATA drive of 6TB and one 4TB via USB3 and an
> Hmm, I didn't think the apu2 had USB3, but double checking the specs I see
> it does. My friend that said he had an APU2 must actually have an original
> APU, as his board doesn't have USB3. Yeah, the external xHCI USB3 ports work
> fine on my APU3, it's the EHCI ones that are screwed up, they are only
> available via two internal headers or if you use the Mini PCI slot. There
> probably aren't very many people that are routing the internal USB headers
> to external connectors, so unless somebody is using a USB Mini PCI expansion
> card on an APU2/3, they probably aren't using the EHCI controller.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>

On the APU3a4 the internal USB headers were broken.
I had email from pcengines (March 2017) saying this would
be addressed in the APU3b series., but we went for APU2.

Have you asked pcengines if your internal USB
headers are fully functional?


Douglas Ray

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