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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:43:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2N1v6tD+3_6_1ZyRN_s8otgumn27uK3YuKC3Qn8BByk_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM,  <felix@crowfix.com> 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.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-19 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18  6:16 [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations felix
2012-06-18  6:35 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-06-18 13:09   ` felix
2012-06-18  8:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-18 13:11   ` felix
2012-06-18 13:24     ` felix
2012-06-18 20:27       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-18 13:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-06-18 14:28   ` felix
2012-06-18 23:46     ` walt
2012-06-19  0:00       ` felix
2012-06-18 14:12 ` [gentoo-user] " pk
2012-06-18 14:24   ` Michael Mol
2012-06-18 14:39     ` felix
2012-06-19 14:42       ` Stroller
2012-06-19 14:49         ` Michael Mol
2012-06-19 16:05           ` felix
2012-06-19 16:13             ` Michael Mol
2012-06-18 14:48     ` pk
2012-06-18 14:56       ` felix
2012-06-18 14:57       ` Michael Mol
2012-06-18 15:45         ` pk
2012-06-18 23:37     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-06-19  1:30       ` Pandu Poluan
2012-06-19 10:06         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-19 10:54           ` J. Roeleveld
2012-06-19 14:02             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-20  7:25               ` J. Roeleveld
2012-06-19  2:54       ` Dale
2012-06-19 10:57       ` J. Roeleveld
2012-06-18 14:34   ` felix
2012-06-18 15:45     ` pk
2012-06-18 15:54       ` felix
2012-06-19 15:43 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-06-19 16:07   ` felix

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