Just the opposite for me. My portable drive I use to back up my
Macbook Pro is powered by the FW bus, but I have to use the power
supply for the drive if I use the USB bus. It could be the way Apple
implements it, but the third party USB2 card in my desktop is the same.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jan 3, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Thomas Clausen wrote:
>
> Well, I've yet to have anything-firewire that I could power from the
> FW bus - but then again, I've been hanging only HDs and DVD-writers
> off of such a bus. On the flip-side, my USB2-bus nicely powers my
> portable hd's and my USB memory key and card reader.
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