Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:22:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Drouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: External power for a USB 2 card necessary?
If you want enough power to run an external 2.5" HDD
then the PCMCIA socket can't do it; I believe all
CardBus USB cards have an external power jack (usually
with a PS/2 cable or an AC adapter). If you only need
to run keyboard/mouse or similar low-power devices you
don't need to connect the external power. The 2.5"
HDD cases usually also have a special USB cable with
an extra power tap for the same reason.
Jim
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:46:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External power for a USB 2 card necessary?
Just picked up a USB 2 cardbus PC card for my L100,
and opened the box to find it's got an adapter to feed
power from a PS/2 socket.
I'm a bit tired, and not feeling up to a Google
search. Anyone have a USB 2 card that gets power
directly via the PCMCIA port? I'm really prefer not
to have to depend on the EPR to power the darned
thing. Are there USB 2 PC cards that get powered from
the PCMCIA socket?
Matt
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