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
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next prev parent 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]
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2005-07-27 2:34 ` Robert Hancock
2005-07-27 3:31 ` Grant Coady
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