USB portable drive weirdness

[Peter King]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:28:21PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
 
> My suggestions, are use the Y USB cable, and plug that
> into two different USB ports. If that doesn't work,
> get a powered USB hub (where the hub has its own wall
> tumor style power supply), connect the drive into
> that...

The clever idea of plugging the Y-USB cable into two ports on the
desktop machine does not work, alas. I'll be getting a decent USB
hub shortly, it seems.

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