Maybe I should just give up. I have a Simple Tech 160 gb external hard
drive. I reformatted it to fat32. I have both USB conectors in the USB
hub. My bn recognizes other things in the hub, but not the hard drive.
One
last time, any idea what's happening, or rather not happening? Would hw
tech support help with something like this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon S [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:49 PM
To: alice dampman; Joseph Lee; 'Alex Hall'; [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again
Hi, you can't use any external USB drives on the PK because it doesn't
have
a USB port for these things. However if you want to backup your flash
drive
you can do this to a CF card. I do this with both my PK and MPower and I'm
not sure what size the card is but I can backup both flash drives to this
one card. I just put them in differant foulders and name them PK backup
and
MPower backup.
Hope this helps,
From Shaz.
BN QT MPower and PK user
----- Original Message -----
From: "alice dampman" <[email protected]>
To: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]>; "'Alex Hall'"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again
Hi,
If you use an external hard drice, can you back up all the things on
the
flash disk, like the address book and it's contents so that if disaster
strikes, you can put all that data on another BN?
Will this work with a PK? Is there enough power? I assume you need some
kind of converter because there is no USB port on the PK?
Thanks.
Alice
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]>
To: "'Alex Hall'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again
Hi Alex,
Actually, from my research, when USB devices are first connected to a
host
(such as BrailleNote), it will start out with 100 milliamps. When the
host
says to switch to higher power, then it will switch to maximum power
output
- 500 milliamps. A USB hub, regardless of number ports, is supposed to
provide a total of 500 milliamps. For instance, a four-port UsB hub can
use
100 milliamps to power itself, plus 4X100 milliamps for devices connected
to
it.
I think in theory, USB hubs with devices attached will work with
BrailleNote. Most come with UsB plus an aC adapter for power.
Cheers,
Joseph P.S. if it is not FAT, try using a drive format software to
convert
it back to fAT32.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:32 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: re: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again
Not a hub, but an external drive? Sure! Mine is a 320gb Seagate
that works perfectly. If you have a hub it should work. Both
ports can put out 500 milliamps between them, but, as I
understand it, one port could put out 500 and the other can be
inactive, or one can give 200 and the other 300, and so on (I
assume this from the wording of the manual). Therefore, the one
working port on your machine should give you the power required,
and all you need is the hub to give you both ports (data and
power). Hope that makes sense!
Have a great day,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" <[email protected]
To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:19:59 -0700
Subject: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again
Some of you may remember that I got an external hard drive for
Christmas and
was trying to hook it up to my Mpower 7.5. At the time, I gave
up because
the bn could not provide enough power, one of my USB's being
broke. I now
have a USB hub. The drive is 160 gb and it is not fat format.
Has any one
had any luck with an external hard drive and a usb hub with the
bn?
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