USB portable drive weirdness

[Duncan MacGregor]

Some computer 'features' remain, mainframe or  PC, such as power supplies that 
produce erratic or weak current. They manifest themselves in other ways, like 
erratic peripheral behaviour. 

Low humidity in December caused erratic mainframe problems in the dear old 
days, making printers an tape drives fail. High-speed tape rewind in a dry 
environment would leave a trail of static sparks that *erased* the tape. A 
few buckets of water in the air conditioner kept us going once we figured it 
out. But it took several Decembers.

Computers that are overheating never say 'It's too hot!' and shut down 
gracefully, but hang or leave bizarre software messages.

So you have to to guess about power supply capability.

Dunc

On August 9, 2007 04:40:01 pm Peter King wrote:
> 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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