[PLUG] Identifying New External Hard Drive

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jul 21 22:45:42 UTC 2007


On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Kenneth B. Hill wrote:

> Can you access other hardware from the USB port that the external hard
> drive is connecting through?

   Yes. I use that for the thumb drive and syncing my PDA.

> Try popping in a USB thumb drive and see if
> that is detected. Some external hard drives have drivers that need to be
> installed; they will come with a CD/DVD installation disk which is most
> likely for Windows and/or Mac OS's.

   No, this guy arrived by itself in a sealed plastic bag. I was going to put
it in my Toshiba Portege, but finally decided that however much I like that
small, light notebook, it's too slow and has too little RAM (96M max) to be
really useful. So, I'll use the drive for backup, extra storage, and
transporting applications.

Thanks,

Rich

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