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
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> Carl Freire
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> Tokyo, Japan
>
> >

Megan Dunn




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