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 || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
