On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge > its presence. USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on > my system.
Is the drive powered by USB, or an external power supply? USB3 supplies more power than USB2 was capable of, so if a USB3 device does not have an external power supply it probably won't be backwards compatible.
