[ale] external hard drive

[Neal Rhodes]

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. 

Neal Rhodes
MNOP Ltd. 

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 08:37 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: 

> 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 <lists at serioustechnology.com> 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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