On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> I read quite some website about USB things and often Mac is touted
> to abide by the USB standard much better than Windows and even Linux.
>
> However it seems Mac is similar to other OS when it comes to
> USB powered harddisk. They are supposed to be illegal USB device

How come?  My mac seems to allow for some "startup time" before it
complains of over-power.  The power issue with hard disks seems to
be not so much their "average" power, but the power they draw when
the disk is fist spinning up.

BillW
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