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From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird USB errors on HD
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:16:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E59CF7.9000405@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507201553.09602.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>


Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> You can get special USB cables that link two USB ports' 5Vs together in 
> parallel, which seems to help supply the necessary current; after the HD has 
> spun up you can remove the second "dummy" USB connector (my laptop only has 
> two USB ports and I require the second port).

Yeah, there was one of these in the box with the drive, but the first time
I saw it I remember thinking: what the hell is this thing? Then when I
figured it out, I found myself wondering whether the USB interface was
ever planed for such a such and whether it wouldn't have been better to
just ship a real adapter with the thing ...

Anyhow, I will not be using the drive anymore without a powered hub.

Thanks for all those that helped,

Karim
-- 
Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant
Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits
http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-19 16:47 Weird USB errors on HD Karim Yaghmour
2005-07-19 19:29 ` Greg KH
2005-07-19 19:27   ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-07-19 19:40     ` Greg KH
2005-07-19 20:16   ` Lee Revell
2005-07-19 20:29     ` Greg KH
2005-07-20 14:53 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-07-26  2:16   ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
     [not found] <4s3BX-8X-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <4s66H-2ai-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4s66H-2ai-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-27  2:34     ` Robert Hancock
2005-07-27  3:31       ` Grant Coady

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