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It might just be that the USB port just doesn't have the juice. I have an external USB disk drive and only one of our workstations has enough power to run it normally off the USB port. However, the drive enclosure came with a little extra USB power takeoff. I got a wall wart that puts out USB power, plug that into the port on the drive, and the drive is now happy with all workstations. Without that external USB power I get a click-click-click noise when plugged into just the USB ports which lack sufficient power. <BR>
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Neal Rhodes<BR>
MNOP Ltd. <BR>
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On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 08:37 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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Is it a green drive?
Ie. To save power, by design it powers off after a few milliseconds of non-use?
I have seen lots of discussion of the problems they have under linux,
but I don't recall the details.
Fyi: if you don't address the issue, the drive will die early if it is
green drive.
Greg
On 1/27/10, Geoffrey Myers <<A HREF="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</A>> wrote:
> So, I picked up a 1.5 tb external drive. I pushed a bunch of data off
> to it all went well. Later, I connect the drive up to a couple of
> different boxes. Each time, the drive is giving that really scary
> clicking sound you dread. I can access the data fine, I don't see any
> errors being produced. This thing is brand new, what is with this? Any
> reason anyone can come up with why this drive would be making these noises?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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