[Gllug] Backup drive for CentOS 5 remote setup

Tue Aug 17 17:15:17 UTC 2010

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 09:32 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> One small caveat about USB powered drives - make sure to either use
> the lead which comes with the drive, or a thick cable.
> I have one portable drive which does not work unless you use a chunky,
> short cable. I assume this is due to a voltage drop over a
> thin cable.

I have a Samsung portable DVD drive that gets over that problem by
having a Y-shaped cable that plugs into two USB slots on my computer!

C.

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