[icon-discuss] Re: Anyone Successfully Using Western Digital PassportDrive?
- From: Richard Ehrler <REhrler-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:05:12 -0600
My Western Digital 80 Gig hard drive works fine with my Voice
Note but fails to work with either my Braille Plus or the Voice
Sense. From what I remember on the Humanware list, these drives
will work with their note takers if no larger than one hundred
Gig with power supplied by the usb port but larger drives require
the ac adapter wall wart. I didn't purchase that adapter when I
purchased my WD drive so can't tell if plugging in the adapter
would make a difference on my Braille Plus. Newer versions of
this 80 Gig WD drive don't even come with a power adapter jack,
so if the usb port doesn't supply enough power, it will not work.
I don't know if the newer Western Digital drives with capacity
above one hundred Gig still offer a choice for plugging into
external power but maybe someone else here has one and can answer
this. Another possibility is to plug the hard drive into a
powered usb hub and plug the hub into your Icon or Braille Plus.
If someone here has a usb hub, please give this a try and let us
all know if it works.
Richard Ehrler
----- Original Message -----
From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:30:14 -0400
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Anyone Successfully Using Western
Digital PassportDrive?
If the IOMega drive takes power from the USB port, it is likely
that its
power requirement exceed what can be delivered by the the
ICON/BP. . . but
it's worth a try. G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
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