Don't try to power an external drive with your laptop's power supply. Asking for trouble. Use a power brick.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:12 PM, rleesimon<[email protected]> wrote: > My thinkpad x31 winxpprosp3 laptop has a 4pin firewire port .is there some > way, with an adapter, I can use it as the 2nd port required for some > external hdd's to get power? They come with a split usb dongle, 1st is for > data, the 2nd is for power and I thought I could preserve the 2nd usb port > for something else and get the power off the firewire port. also, how to > figure out if it's a firewire 400 or 800 .iomega makes ext hdds with both > types of connection, but will this MINI firewire do any of that? .tia! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
