[gui-talk] external hard drive question

[Joel Deutsch]

Mike, what do you mean about a device being powered by the hard drive if 
it's plugged into the USB port? Is there something about the basics that I 
don't know? For instance, when you plug something into a USB port, be it a 
scanner or a printer, it's being powered by electricity generated by the 
spinning of your computer's hard drive, the way the alternator of a running 
car engine could power something? Or is it siphoning off some of the 
electricity that's running the hard drive, to ill effect? Or do you mean 
something entirely different than what I'm imagining, but this is the way 
it's conventionally phrased even though someone like me may find it 
misleading?

Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] external hard drive question


I suspect that powering a drive from the hard drive may be a bit much
for USB power connectionc.

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darren Tomblin
  To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
  Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:02 PM
  Subject: [gui-talk] external hard drive question


  Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows if anyone makes a high capacity
external
  hard drive that can be powered through the usb port. i've been looking
  around online and haven't had any luck. thanks in advance
  73,
  Darren Tomblin (KC9JJJ)
  dtomblin at hotmail.com
  http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Plaza/8579

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