Re: [SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-05 Thread UnclePete
That's fairly common on many motherboards, not just laptops. If you can get external power to the HDD, that may help Pete David Gillies wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. St

Re: [SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:33 +1000, David Gillies wrote: > Ken Foskey wrote: > > I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept > > mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. > > > > Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer > > a

Re: [SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread David Gillies
Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different types

[SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different types of USB port? Ta Ke