I use an Apricorn cardbus USB2 card on an X30; it is fine for flash drives
and powered external devices, but needs a powered hub for external optical
and hard drives that are supposed to run off the laptop power.
David
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From: "trotter" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:28 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Cardbus USB2 card for Thinkpad X30
Hello,
I was reading on another email group that you can add a USB2 port to old
laptops with a cardbus interface.
Since the x30 has only usb1 I was thinking of getting one.
However on the same email group user recommended that a interface with a
power brick was used as usb2 with some devices attached can burn out the
motherboard.
I have searched for a cardbus with a power adaptor bus i can not find one.
Has anyone come across them?
Is it really necessary to have the power brick for flash drives being
plugged in?
Thanks for your time
Martin N
Owner of the bwfc yahoogroup and Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and
amithlonopen yahoo groups.
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