On Mar 27, 2011, at 3:33 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi I have a 60GB laptop drive in a little enclosure. It has nothing on it except a disk image, which is 6GB+. I have a USB 2.0 card in my TiBook which I have used on other TiBooks and G3 PowerBooks. While it doesnt seem to offer the full USB 2 speed it is a damn lot quicker than USB 1.1. However, I am having problems this morning. I hooked the USB drive to the built in USB 1.1 ports and the drive mounts on the dekstop no problem. I am attempting to copy the disk image across but it is going to take about 2 hours. I thought I would set it going and hopefully get a work around if not, leave it going. When I hook the drive to the USB 2 card, the drive light comes on, but it doesnt mount. The drive comes with a 1 into 2 cable, but over USB 1 it only requires one end. You know it is one of those cables you can plug both of one end in to draw more power/current/speed. Everything I have tried has failed to get this drive mounted using the USB 2 card. I am eager to get this to work as it would probably copy the image across in about 20 minutes. It is not a problem with the card as such as I just plugged in a flash drive and it worked. The card does have an option for a power supply (right in the middle of the two USB ports) but I havent got one and never needed it in the past. Any ideas? Simon
It sounds to me like a power supply is needed here. I usually need to use one on the Card Bus adaptors it just depend which one. Do you have a USB power cable you can connect to the 1.1 port? that will work.
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