08-23-2006, 07:02 PM
I couldn't get a 2.5" USB drive to work bus-powered on my 15" PowerBook G4 1.25. Different machines will put slightly different amounts of power onto the bus.
I have one 2.5" Firewire enclosure that works on PowerBook G4's, but won't run bus-powered on my Pismo (Pismo has run every other 2.5" FW enclosure just fine). And my Cube's firewire bus seems overpowered and will run two FW enclosures bus-powered just fine (although I don't like to do that except in a pinch).
I have one 2.5" Firewire enclosure that works on PowerBook G4's, but won't run bus-powered on my Pismo (Pismo has run every other 2.5" FW enclosure just fine). And my Cube's firewire bus seems overpowered and will run two FW enclosures bus-powered just fine (although I don't like to do that except in a pinch).