Thanx Carl On Sep 1, 2008, at 11:40 PM, Carl Freire wrote: > > 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 > > >
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