I agree with Bryan. Your laptop doesn't have enough power to be able to run the the drive. If you are in love with this drive and don't want to exchange it you could buy a powered USB 2 hub that has an external power cable. The hub would then have enough juice to power the drive and you could then plug your USB 1 port into the hub without worrying about the mac supply the power.
If this is a problem I would recommend going back and exvhanging it for a FireWire 400 drive. Your mac would most likely have enough to power it while getting much faster access rates then USB 1. Good luck Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Bryan Forrest <bcforrest at cox.net> wrote: > The HD doesn't have enough juice to run on the older iBook because > of the USB 1.1 port. The USB 2.0 ports on your friend's PC have a > higher voltage and can power some portable devices. You're going to > need to use an AC adapter (assuming one came with the drive) with > the iBook. > > Bryan > > -- > > Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep > moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because > we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. > > Walt Disney > > > On Sep 22, 2007, at 2:18 AM, nprobasco wrote: > >> Ward, >> >> I bought a 160 gig flash drive for my laptop computer. I have the >> 14" ibook that has the G-3 processor. I have been able to use other >> flash drives, but this is the first time I have tried one this >> large. I plug the unit in and it just makes a clicking sound but >> never loads the necessary software. It is supposed to be Mac >> compatible with the OS I have. I tried it on a friends Windoze >> computer and it worked fine. >> >> Is it because of the old G-3 processors, or did that ibook have 1.0 >> USB ports instead of 2.0. It is made by Western Digital and I got >> it at Costco. Help! I would really like to use it, but am afraid >> that it won't work on this particular laptop. >> >> Nora >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070922/30c382ab/attachment.html
