Hi Alan, The caddy is also known as a hard drive enclosure, and you have to be careful which you buy.
For example, there are currently two types of hard drives on the market. The first kind is the 3.5 inch hard drives. These are the kinds that will go into a regular desktop computer, and requires an external power supply to run. Internals simply have a wire that will plug into the desktop's power supply, and, if in an enclosure, the enclosure will have it's own power adapter. The other kind is the 2.5 inch hard drives which are most commonly used in laptops or portable computers. These hard drives are very small, about half the thickness of a 3.5 inch drive, and does not need it's own power supply to run. The enclosures for these hard drives will only come equipped with a USB cable or other interface, and will not require a power adapter in order to run. These are obviously the most portable enclosures and hard drives, and are in fact, often sold as accessories for laptops and the like. Also, if the particular desktop or laptop computer's USB port does not have enough power to run the drive, the USB cable will often come equipped with an extra USB interface on the wire, so that the USB cable actually looks like a Y. To get the extra power needed to run the drive on that particular port, you would simply plug in the extra USB plug on the end of the Y-shaped USB wire, and it will pull the extra power from the other plug. Comes in handy when you're dealing with USB 1.1 ports and the like. Not so handy when there's only one port available. Smile. Anyway, hope this helps. Victor Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
