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Re: USB hard drive

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: USB hard drive
Date 2013-11-14 16:58 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2013-11-14, J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/13 9:18 AM, Király wrote:
>> Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
>>> Others have suggested it may be a power problem, which seems quite
>>> likely.
>>>
>>> But have you made any recent changes, such as the third-party item that
>>> is supposed to provide S.M.A.R.T. checking on external drives?
>>
>> Nope; I even tried it on a fresh Snow Leopard install on the same Mac;
>> it wouldn't work there either.
>>
>> Come to think of it, I've been having trouble with my adapter-powered
>> USB scanner too. It often drops off the line when scanning. If I unplug
>> and reconnect the USB cable it works again for a while. I thought the
>> scanner was on its way out but maybe my iMac is having a USB problem.
>>
> Sometimes resetting the SMC can fix a USB problem.

True.

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USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kiraly) - 2013-11-12 23:22 +0000
  Re: USB hard drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-12 18:28 -0500
    Re: USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Kiraly) - 2013-11-13 00:38 +0000
      Re: USB hard drive nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-12 19:46 -0500
  Re: USB hard drive dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-11-13 23:00 +0000
    Re: USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-11-14 14:18 +0000
      Re: USB hard drive J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-11-14 11:56 -0500
        Re: USB hard drive Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-14 16:58 +0000
        Re: USB hard drive me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-11-15 06:11 +0000

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