hi, i recently purchased a USB external HDD enclosure for 2.5" (laptop) hdd's. it's make/model are :- http://www.v-link.com.cn/index.html (chinese site, readable thru Babelfish at Altavista) Model: VE-007NHD the problem is, this is not being auto-detected by Windows98SE, WinXP and on RedHat Linux 7.2 (PCMCIA kernel) either ??? when i see /proc/bus/usb/devices there it doesn't show up as anything... of course this enclosure came as a small plastic box with 2 inputs. 1 for USB and the other for DC input. the manual (leaflet) said that DC power is not essential and supplied no specs on it's power requirements as an option either. it has 2 LED's red and green, none of them glow ever, and i am unable to find out if it works at all. my older laptop simply reboots bigtime the moment i plug in this device while it is running. the newer laptop doesn't do so, but this too doesn't detect the device.
BTW, it has a brand new (factory packed) IBM Travelstar 30GN (20GB) HDD and the website of this enclosure said that it can support 1-50GB HDD's and it has 512K buffer and can do 1.5MB xfer. i am at complete loss at what to do (how to debug) it ?? any suggestions are welcome. thanks, bdutta. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
