On 24 November 2010 15:10, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Andy Braben <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have an external hard disk with bootable ubuntu on it, and I can >> boot that and use it perfectly connected only via USB. There is no >> mains power that can be attached to it. > > What size hard disk drive does it have in it? Not capacity, physical > drive size. I am betting it's 2½". > > 3½" hard disk drives draw too much power to run them off USB alone. > > --
Yes it is 2.5". Regards, Andy. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
