Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive
On Wed, May 23 2007, at 17:04 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
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> On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200
> Sven Luther <luther@debian.org> wrote:
> > The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not enough
> > to drive a harddisk, especially a 3.5" one.
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> It's a mobile (2.5") disk.
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> > This is what makes the firewire solution so much superior to the usb
> > one, since it can usually provide upto around 18W if i remember well.
> > Just get yourself an enclosure which provide both USB and firewire,
> > and use the firewire one on your mac.
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> Are there firewire models that are easily portable? One of the
> attractive aspects of the unit I have now is it's small size. It isn't
> much larger than the 2.5" disk it encloses.
I have lots of problems connecting hardware to an AluBook 5.8. For both
USB and Firewire enclosures. I didn't have these probs with an older
Titanium IV Book.
So before I would buy any new hardware - USB/FW enclosures, no matter
what - the store that is willing to sell it, needs to allow me to
actually connect it to the alubook. Before I pay. And if the
connection fails I won't buy their items. As simple as that.
I'm not sure what's going on with newer Apple Hardware, but it's
rather clear the latest alubook was the last Apple HW I bought.
We were trying a few months ago to debug an issue, where a FW disk
could not be connected to this 5.8 alubook, neither via OSX nor via
Linux, IIRC. We didn't succeed, and we gave up in the end.
Here's some part of the story:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-August/025371.html
HTH
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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