From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Sh10Z-0005Gm-0k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:10:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80955E07C7; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F532E075C for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3697 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2012 16:09:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 19 Jun 2012 16:09:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 8505 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jun 2012 16:07:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:07:44 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120619160744.GB29447@crowfix.com> References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 1e0dd42a-4d11-43c9-9949-768b821f4640 X-Archives-Hash: 684856d2118d9d251a6d21ee91411283 On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, wrote: > > I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence. ?USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on my system. > > Is the drive powered by USB, or an external power supply? USB3 > supplies more power than USB2 was capable of, so if a USB3 device does > not have an external power supply it probably won't be backwards > compatible. Good question -- if it had a power supply, I would have used it, but I don't remember now if it did. Doubt I would have given it a second thought if it had no external power supply. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o