> On 12/14/15 03:22, Ger van Dijck wrote:
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> Cables can be a problem.
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Here's my USB cable story:... snip ...
> Cables can be a problem.
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My sister-in-law's USB disk drive stopped working for her.
I tried it on my Linux laptop, and it worked just fine.
I took it to work and tried it on three different Windows machines (desktops and a laptop)
they ALL refused to see the drive.
I then booted a Linux Live CD on one of those Windows machines, and the drive WORKED!
Thinking it was a flakey drive with some weird Windows interaction,
I suggested we replaced the drive/enclosure.
.
When I brought the new drive/enclosure to her, I plugged it into her Windows machine
(with her old cable just because I didn't want to undo the twist tie on the
new cable, and besides... the old cable worked just fine when running Linux.)
the new (tested on Linux) drive still would NOT work on her Windows machine!
On a whim, I tried the new cable.
The drive then miraculously started working on her Windows machine.
To this day, I don't know what happened to that cable that made it
'no longer' work with Windows, but would work just fine with Linux.
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