USB2/Firewire card

[iankb]

I have a USB2/Firewire card in a laptop. Connected external HDD using firewire cable and it's recognised straight away. Connected via USB2 cable and it's not visible. Tried connecting iPOD using USB2 and no visibility there either, whilst the firewire connection works fine. Seems to be some sort of power issue with USB2. Is there a way of increasing power to the USB2 ports so that external devices can be seen?

Laptop is Toshiba SP6100.

Thanks in advance!

 

[bcastner]

Add a powered hub.
Some of the PCMCIA cards offer a power supply option.

 

[Ali147gta]

To add to bcastners reply, toshiba's (to name but one manufacturer) do not provide full USB2 compliance on some USB ports on certain laptops, they fail to provide the full 500ma of power, this normally leads to a device in device manager showing an error code 10.

I first saw this issue when connecting an Intel 3240 external ADSL modem..........

 

[iankb]

There's no error code, there's just no power! Don't want to buy another card as I've just bought this one to add USB2 compatibility to a USB1 laptop...thought there might be some way of increasing the power to the ports...perhaps not eh?