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 > > and it now works correctly. Is it possible that they are two different > > types of USB port? > Sounds like the first port you plugged it into might not have enough > power to run the usb hdd? I know some Apple notebooks (just off the top > of my head) have slightly different power ratings for different usb > ports on the same machine.
This is an external powered hard drive. So power should not be the problem. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
