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    Dell 9300 external hard drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by CSF2005, Jun 29, 2005.

  1. CSF2005

    CSF2005 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,
    I have a Dell 9300 with external Seagate drive. I added a second external drive (both are 2.0) , and I got an error when connecting it about the speed, and that it will perform at a slower speed, "the typical plugging a 2.0 device into a usb 1 connection.

    The 9300 has 4 usb connections on the back, and 2 on the side. I plugged into the back , got the error, disconnected, plugged into the side one, and it was fine. So.. do I have a hardware error (problem), is there a maximum of how many 2.0 devices can connect (maybe a power issue?).

    Any thoughts? I guess I could try each connection and see if I get errors but thought I'd throw this out to the group first.

    Thanks
     
    CSF2005, Jun 29, 2005
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  2. goga

    goga Notebook Consultant

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    Just a guess for clarification: there are two USB controllers on the mobo, one of them has 4 ports, the other 2. So if you plug everything into the same controller (it's like a pci card) it will have to share resources/speed. It is like two harddrives on the same cable which can have some much throughput.
     
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