On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
I just use externals for basic external storage and I've never had a problem. And I've had dozens of different manufacturers external USB drives hooked up to my systems. USB seems very vanilla and not to require tweaks for different manufacturers.
I have recently experienced a Hitachi notebook drive that will not work in external USB cases. The external case has been verified good with a couple of other drives and the drive shown to fail in another case.
I call user error! Laptop drives by design often pull more power than a single USB port can provide. Thus external laptop carriers typically come with a custom USB cable with 3 connectors. You have to plug 2 of the connectors into your PC in order to get enough power. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org