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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:45:59
Message-Id: CAEH5T2N1v6tD+3_6_1ZyRN_s8otgumn27uK3YuKC3Qn8BByk_A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge its presence.  USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on my system.
3
4 Is the drive powered by USB, or an external power supply? USB3
5 supplies more power than USB2 was capable of, so if a USB3 device does
6 not have an external power supply it probably won't be backwards
7 compatible.

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