08-23-2006, 01:13 PM
I bought my wife a WD Passport drive - it's one of those small external, bus-powered USB2 hard drives. We went to hook it up, but it wouldn't work on her PowerBook G4 (15" model, 1.5 GHz, so it's got USB2 ports). We tried it in all the ports, but it just didn't work. So I tried it in my 12" iBook and it works just fine. So we tried the no-name external HD that I use, and it wouldn't work on her PowerBook either. The only way we could get it to work was to buy a powered hub, which kinda defeats the purpose of using it with a laptop.
Has anyone else noticed a problem like this with their PowerBook G4? She can use flash drives fine, and she can also use a smart-card reader that she needs for work. And yes, I made sure they were all unplugged before trying this.
Has anyone else noticed a problem like this with their PowerBook G4? She can use flash drives fine, and she can also use a smart-card reader that she needs for work. And yes, I made sure they were all unplugged before trying this.