Quoting James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
Laptop drives by design often pull more power than a single USB port can provide. My external case came with one of those special cables that plug into 2 USB ports. I also tried it with a separate power supply
Greg Freemyer wrote: that's capable of 2 amps. As I mentioned, that case has no problem working with 2 other drives.
Are you plugging the drive directly into the computer or going through a hub? I found errors going through the hub and no errors going direct. However, this was a hub that I left unpowered because it worked, at least for the mouse and printer. I am now trying an experiment, powering the hub and plugging the drive into it. So far (twice), no errors, but this is with a different laptop. Somewhere, perhaps my own experience, I found that the particular errors encountered indicated a bad cable. In the previous instance it was a IDE drive that required the 80 conductor cable. The first cable claimed be standards compliant. A Belkin cable that cost 3 times as much solved the problem. In this instance, removing the USB hub solved the "cable" problem. HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org