At 10:23 PM -0400 9/1/08, Megan Dunn wrote: >Well the message is saying the USB hub is drawing too much power but >actually I've been connecting it directly to the USB slot on my >MacBook. >No, the camera isn't plugged into anything.
That may be the problem--your camera needs more power than the USB port can supply. You might try plugging the camera into a USB hub that has its own power source; make use of that card reader in the meantime if you don't have one. I find USB ports in general to supply enough power only for low performance items--thumb drives, keyboards, mice, etc. Mac or Windows is irrelevant. For example, with each upgrade to the hard disks in my laptops I've bought hard disk enclosures and turned the old, smaller hard disks into spare external hard drives. The 10GB hard disk that came with my Pismo when I bought it new (hard to believe that it still works fine while three or four other disks bought in the intervening years have failed; also hard to believe that 10GB seemed enormous at the time--those were the days) can still run in its enclosure powered off the USB port, but various larger disks have problems (30GB) or won't run at all (40GB, 60GB). FWIW. Carl -- ********** Carl Freire cfreire /[EMAIL PROTECTED] ix.netcom.com Tokyo, Japan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
