In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > capability, but that "thumb drives" have an embedded microcontroller > that levels the wear. There is still the issue that some filesystems > work better with this type of device than others. > > My experience with external USB-connected drives is that their power > demands exceed that of most (internal and external) USB hubs, that they > might not describe themselves accurately to the hub, and that in many > cases they lack an external PSU socket. In practice, the ports on the > back of an NSLU2 "Slug" will drive the notebook-style drives I've got.
I've seen 2.5" usb-only HDD's crash laptops, and my experiences with other arm devices (Sheeva, goflex are the same). In short, no devices that don't have an own PSU. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
