USB portable drive weirdness

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 13 14:14:00 UTC 2007


On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:39:28PM -0400, Duncan MacGregor wrote:
> I have a 60G drive with the usual Y-connector USB plugs, and  I think your 
> problem is low power.
> 
> I found that the answer was to buy a powered USB hub with a good power supply. 
> After buying two cheap hubs with small power supplies (one unmarked, and one 
> rated at 1 amp), I went to Sourcecc (useta be Radio Shack) and got a 4-port 
> hub with a 2.5amp power supply. Now everything works fine. If I move the 2.5a 
> power supply to the cheap hubs, they work, too! 

My wife has a nexstar 2.5" enclosure with a 60GB fujitsu in it, and it
uses the Y cable too.  So far it has worked on the machines she has
tried it on (my desktops, a compaq laptop, and an asus tablet PC) and
never a problem yet.

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