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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 518553" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Amitabh</p><p>Sorry.</p><p>It's just whenever I've heard that sound, the drive was soon to go.</p><p>Am not nearly as familiar with using external drives nor notebooks, so maybe it is a matter of not enough power. Still a drag when you get a new drive and it doesn't work.</p><p>If part of your primary purpose is to use this drive with the PowerBook and it doesn't connect, only other thing I can recommend is returning the drive. Or does that particular drive also have an available power adapter for it?</p><p></p><p>Did a litlle research this morning and found a couple of reports (not on this particular drive) in particular, where it was mentioned that externals people have required the power adapter with their powerbook, but worked just fine with only the USB connection on their powermac and imac machines.</p><p></p><p>Another option might be to give OWC a call and ask them about which drives would work with the powerbook without an external power source.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 518553, member: 24160"] Amitabh Sorry. It's just whenever I've heard that sound, the drive was soon to go. Am not nearly as familiar with using external drives nor notebooks, so maybe it is a matter of not enough power. Still a drag when you get a new drive and it doesn't work. If part of your primary purpose is to use this drive with the PowerBook and it doesn't connect, only other thing I can recommend is returning the drive. Or does that particular drive also have an available power adapter for it? Did a litlle research this morning and found a couple of reports (not on this particular drive) in particular, where it was mentioned that externals people have required the power adapter with their powerbook, but worked just fine with only the USB connection on their powermac and imac machines. Another option might be to give OWC a call and ask them about which drives would work with the powerbook without an external power source. [/QUOTE]
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