[GRLUG] Interesting problem with 2.5" backup drive

John-Thomas Richards jtr at jrichards.org
Tue Apr 27 21:42:26 EDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 04:05:46PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 03:17 PM 4/27/2010, you wrote:
> >Is it in a USB enclosure?
> 
> Just found the problem - looks like the USB port on ONE machine is 
> underpowered - tried the disk on a 3rd Linux machine (netbook) and it 
> mounted with no problem!

That makes sense.  My USB cable for my external drive has an extra plug
in case one does not provide enough power.  Cool.  Glad you figured it
out.
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john-thomas
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