On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 16:17, David Morris wrote: > I did some research yesterday and everything pointed to flaky USB > implementation on the old Gigabyte GA-5AX motherboard I was using > (OHCI driver). The current box has UHCI USB and is working a treat. I > think it was one of those problems (which I've seen on several > occasions before including on the ABit KT-7A m/b in my desktop) where > the USB isn't really capable of supplying enough juice to keep > host-powered USB peripherals going. The frog never really stood a > chance because it's right on the limit for current consumption I > believe. > Some guys at BTopenworld spent quite a while on this, and on Windows boxes, the lack of power for USB devices would cause the drive to fail loading.... ... If that is a problem an external powered USB hub would do the trick. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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