On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Is your usb port supporting the power of the drive? Have you cross > checked this drive on other USB ports behind your pc as well as on other > machines? I have seen machines that take USB pen drives but cannot take > the portable disk. It is the limitation of your motherboard's USB ports. > > I think that this external drive is supported only by USB2 ports. Since my present computer/motherboard is old (pentium 4 motherboard), it could be that i am trying the drive with USB1 ports. Is there any way to connect USB2 ports onto this motherboard using a pci card or something similar? The command lsusb gives me this information on this computer ku...@desktop:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub ku...@desktop:~$ which shows that ONE usb2 port controller is present on this computer's motherboard alongwith 4 USB1 ports. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
