Another exception here, I have the Seagate Momentus 5400 160 gb drive in an enclosure and I need either the second USB port OR the wall wart to have it run. Otherwise it just clicks.
Stuart Friedman OK, thanks for the correction. Maybe I should have said "any external 2.5" 5400 RPM drive". Stuart Biggar wrote: >> There's nothing about either the T43 or this LaCie drive that would >> cause any incompatibility between them. Only one USB cable is needed, >> because a singe USB port on any T4 series Thinkpad provides sufficient >> power for any external 2.5" drive. > > > That is not my experience. I have a Lacie enclosure with a 7200 RPM > Hitachi 2.5" laptop drive. The drive will NOT spin up correctly when > plugged into a USB port on my T43p. It works fine when powered > by a provided Lacie power wall wart (quite small) and then plugged > into either of the two USB ports on my T43p. It does work OK > when powered through a 6-pin Firewire connection with an iMac but > does not work correctly with only the USB connections on an iMac. > The Lacie enclosure supports 400 MB firewire (standard 6-pin > socket) and USB. -- Stuart Friedman Montpelier, VT USA 802.522.6228 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
