On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: > and Tim proceeds to do technical specification dump on USB > specifications which I have no dispute with whatsoever except that my > real life experiences have mirrored that which I was told...a decent > USB cable should work for his standard USB 2.0 drive. > > What your axe is here, I don't know but myself, I tire when hearing > people dump endless technical detail that has proved to be irrelevant > in my experiences. Try "beyond your understanding," instead... You mentioned you were told that any decent cable should be fine. You were given information about why that's not really true. You contested that, you were given further details. Stop whinging. If you were expecting to be hear, "just plug it in, cross your fingers, and don't even think about what's involved," you're in the wrong place. If it works, good luck to you. But if it doesn't, now you (and anybody else) knows about one more thing to investigate while resolving the problem. And knowing about it from a point of fact, rather than conjecture that *maybe* the cable is bad, and a false belief that the cable couldn't be an issue. A lot of people will plug their drive into a cable, and it works as far as they're concerned. For some it does, for others they get drive errors, data corruption, and whatnot, but they still feel that their drive *works*, they don't see anything wrong with it, they'll carry on and proclaim all is well (thousands of Windows users, and the plethora of crap hardware that's continually sold in many computer stores, are a testament to that attitude). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
