I'm not sure these are related, so I'll start with the known problem. I have an external bus-powered drive that's always worked well. I plugged it into the top USB port of the T41p and while the light went on, I got a message about not recognizing the drive. I moved it to the bottom USB port and it was recognized.
Is it possible the top port is delivering less than the required voltage? Would that seem like a reasonable thing for it to be doing (I don't recall it happening in the past). Right now I have a self-powered desktop external in the USB port and it's working okay. Also, with the bus-powered drive, I got an error at one point related to E:\$MFt (not sure of the exact spelling). I googled and found a lot of posts on error messages for this. Master File Table I think and it sounded serious. No number of shutdowns and restarts (of the computer) seemed to make a difference. I plugged the drive into another machine and it worked fine, no MFt error. Put it back into the T41p (bottom port and through a powered hub this time) and got the MFt error again. It seemed to be cycling through it: MFt error, E: drops off My Computer, E: is recognized, MFt error, etc. Is it possible the MFt message is stuck in a record somewhere and it's producing this message without actually seeing anything's wrong? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
