On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, sean <tech.j...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> >> >> I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives >> works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when >> attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when >> attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine. >> >> I've never determined what causes it and have sort of decided it's >> just some weird incompatibility... >> >> - Mark >> > > Mark, > > I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect the drives to my > system. It cured the problem here. > > Sean >
That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a drive case? I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical parameters on the cable just enough that it started working. I should give that a try here and see if I get so lucky! Cheers, Mark
