[Cialug] Interesting problem with 2.5" backup drive

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Wed Apr 28 08:11:08 CDT 2010


On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Don Cady wrote:

> 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.
>
> So, it _was_ a power problem?
>
That was my assumption based on the hypothesies, ..

	Lee


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