On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> 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.
Good question -- if it had a power supply, I would have used it, but I
don't remember now if it did. Doubt I would have given it a second
thought if it had no external power supply.
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