On Jan 23 Tim did spake thusly:
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).
I had a similar conversation with a geek who wanted to know why I'd spent
a little more than I needed to for an HDMI cable. His view was "it's
digital, therefore it will either work or it won't", he used RJ45 as an
example...seemed not to be able to grasp that you get what you pay for and
that sometimes cables can slow down networks because of transmission
errors
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