On Oct 29, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Peter wrote:

> All this because of the lame power specification for the USB bus
>  in the first place.

Oh, 500mA probably seemed like fine idea at the time.  They were 
thinking
along the lines of keyboards and mice, and failed to anticipate the 
whole
"USB disk" market.  I'm a little surprised that USB 2 didn't add another
power mode along with high-speed mode, since by that time this was a
clear target application...

BillW

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