[Cialug] Interesting problem with 2.5" backup drive

Don Cady doncady at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 23:25:55 CDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> At 03:22 PM 4/27/2010, you wrote:
>>I saw a similar problem to this on my drive that did not conform
>>tothe USB standard and drew too much power. The solution was to use
>>thecable that came with my drive that had two usb connectors to the PC.
>
> Bingo! Tried it on a third machine (netbook), and it mounted with no problem.
>
>         Thanks!
>
>         Lee

So, it _was_ a power problem?

Don


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