Dual Link Hub DLX-182 from ADS <www.adstech.com>

This would be a wonderful hub, combining USB and FireWire in one small enclosure if it actually worked with all my devices. The price is right and I love that you just need one hub for both technologies. It does not however draw its power from FireWire but comes with one of these clunky power converters that blocks three outlets on my power strip.



So with my PowerBook connected to the hub (under Mac OS X 10.4.7) the Nikon Coolpix, LaCie hard drive, LaCie Scanner and HP LaserJet work fine, plug-and-play as one might expect. Unfortunately I had to discover, that my iPod and the Epson color printer remain unseen behind the hub. Neither does the iPod mount in the Finder nor does iTunes discover it. The Epson printer utility reports a communication error with the printer. No reboots or countless permutations of the plug-in-plug-out tango seem to solve this. I can't find any updated drivers online either. So close and yet so far, be warned.