Alle 18:07, sabato 22 aprile 2006, ET ha scritto: > Grumpy_Penguin wrote: > > On Saturday 22 April 2006 04:06 am, Al wrote: > >><snip> > >> > >>>I have such a hard drive ( that works fine ) but you trouble me with > >>>this two usb thing. Basically the lead offers two ways you can connect, > >>>one for when you are supplying power to the hard drive directly and the > >>>other when you are not. My point here is that I believe only one ought > >>>to be connected ????? not both ! > >> > >>I have a 2.5 inch External USB HDD. > >> > >>it has 1 cable from the enclosure to the PC > >>at the PC end, it splits into 2 USB plugs > >>plug into 2 seperate USB ports on the PC > >>1 for data & power, 1 for extra power if needed. > >> > >>Sometimes you can get away with plugging in only data/power cable > >>sometimes you need both > >> > >>Unfortunately, I've never tried to use it in Linux. (I just got it today > >>from a friend). > >> > >>At his place, only needs to plug into 1 USB port > >> > >>Here, at home, I need both. It depends on the PC > >> > >>HTH > >> > >>Al > > > > it depends on the amount of powr the drive uses and how heavy the port is > > loaded. A port can have a power draw of up to 500 miliamps [total] > > I would also think it depends ALOT on the USB port it is plugged into. > not all USB ports are equal... > > some 1.1, some 2.0, some high power, some not,,etc for uhci, ehci..... > I tryed with an ubuntu live, and I can see the two partitions I did with WinXP. Ubuntu mounted automatically it.
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