Lamar Owen wrote:
There was a slip of paper in the box with my 80GB WD PassPort drive that
warned to always use the supplied cable, and that the drive might not work
with other cables, and to not use extensions. My own experience trying to
use another cable, one that was the same length but had been supplied with a
USB multi-card reader (SanDisk branded), indicated that this was in fact
true, as the PassPort did not spin up with the SanDisk USB 2.0 cable, but
would with the supplied WD cable.
Please see
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1336&p_created=1112290978&p_sid=cVO3XkWi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9Mjk2LDI5NiZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9mbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1zdXBwbGllZCBjYWJsZQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1
and
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1297&p_created=1102368573&p_sid=cVO3XkWi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9Mjk2LDI5NiZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9mbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1zdXBwbGllZCBjYWJsZQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1
I would be pretty seriously peeved at such a note. Use of USB logos and
assertions of standards compliance on the packaging mean that the device
is supposed to be interoperable with other devices meeting those
USB2.0standards.
If it requires the vendor-supplied cable, then the device is not USB2.0
compliant.
I have just identified a cable amongst my collection that does not seem
to be a USB2.0 cable, the hard drive I was using through it seemed to
run about 1 Mbytes/sec; I changed to another cable and got my 20+. In my
case, the cable's probably several years old, I remember buying one -
shielded with clear plastic coating - a while ago, to connect a printer.
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Cheers
John
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