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On 08/11/2010 05:58 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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
My solution to this problem was usb hub with its own power supply. Use only one drive per hub. No need to plug in the second power cable. The printer can share any hub and some sticks. I run two extternal drives, one per each hub. One my suse system the other for backup with partitions for vat32 and linux. Been doing this for 4 years on my Fujitsu/Siemens laptop.. Hope this help. Johan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org