<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:42 PM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 04:05:46PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:<br>
> At 03:17 PM 4/27/2010, you wrote:<br>
> >Is it in a USB enclosure?<br>
><br>
> Just found the problem - looks like the USB port on ONE machine is<br>
> underpowered - tried the disk on a 3rd Linux machine (netbook) and it<br>
> mounted with no problem!<br>
<br>
That makes sense. My USB cable for my external drive has an extra plug<br>
in case one does not provide enough power. Cool. Glad you figured it<br>
out. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a USB CD-DVD unit like that - two</div><div>plugs. Oddly, it specifies not using a powered</div><div>USB hub, which makes more sense to me. </div><div>I have an HP printer plugged in to a powered</div>
<div>hub, and it works just fine. In this case it's</div><div>not for the power - it has its own power supply.</div><div><br></div><div>So I'm not totally clear about what goes on</div><div>here. Maybe the second plug only taps power,</div>
<div>and not signal? But even then, a powered</div><div>hub would seem to work with a single ended</div><div>cable....</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>