Re: USB powered drives with laptops
From: A. S. Budden (newsreader.mail_at_removethisbit.southparade.vispa.com)
Date: 05/13/04
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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:45:45 GMT
Thus spake Madhusudan Singh:
> Hi
>
> I have a USB-powered Iomega zip 100 drive which works well with my desktop.
> Is it possible to get it to work with a laptop ? (its a power consideration
> - my PS/2 external optical mouse works with the laptop, is the power drawn
> by the drive more than the USB ports can provide ?).
>
> When I boot up (I have sr_mod, usb-storage modules compiled), the zip drive
> does make a noise, but the LED never comes on. Hence my question.
I use the 250MB USB-powered Iomega zip drive with my laptop (a Sony Vaio
PCG-R600HEP) and it works absolutely fine. I've also tried it with an
older Vaio and on a Higrade laptop, all with either Redhat or Mandrake
on and all worked fine, so I'd agree with the other poster and say it's
a problem with the laptop.
Cheers,
Al
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