The HDD enclosure has a separate power cable.
I definitely hear the drive spin up when the power is turned on.
Thanks anyway!
Simon
Malte Sch�nemann wrote:
Simon Oldfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 20.01.04 13:22:10:
Hi!...
I have just bought a USB 2.0 IDE disk enclosure (BlueEye Storage U235) and am trying to get it working with my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop. I have a western digital 120GB drive in the enclosure. I have tried the drive on both mandrake linux 9.2 and windows xp professional without much joy.
In the mandrake linux world, when I plug the drive into the USB port a �USB TO IDE� entry showed up briefly in usbview but then disappears.
In the windows xp world, I get a new hardware found message when I plug it in and then it goes through the installing drivers which fails. I end up with a disabled entry for the drive in the usb section of device manager.
Any ideas would be MUCH appreciated.
If you could CC responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that would also be appreciated.
Thanks in advance Simon
Hi Simon, I already have had problems with USB and PCMCIA with devices getting power via these devices rather than using a power cable. E.g. my CD-RW was not able to burn without a power cable.
In any case this seems to be a general issue as it obviously is not OS dependent.
Does this help ?
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