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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
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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 acknowle=
dge its presence. =A0USB 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.