I recently upgraded to a couple of external hard drive enclosures with power management; it's nice to have my server hard drives go to slep when they're not in use, which is most of the time. I'm running into issues though getting these drives to work with my Belkin USB 2.0 hub, which is a simpe, compact, unpowered, 4-port hub. They seem to work intermittently, but the only way to get them to work consistently is to plug each one into one of the built-in USB ports on the PowerBook. This is pretty unacceptable, given that the Mac only has two ports.
Maybe a powered hub would help? Then again, it could be a damaged hub. I've had some issues getting my iPod detected through it, too.
A little more experimenting, and it looks like whether or not the drives work may depend on which hub ports the drives are plugged into. Specifically, if they're plugged into the ports on the left side of the hub, they seem to work. The other ports (those on the right side) are not definitely not completely dead: I have my wireless mouse/keyboard adapter plugged in there and it seems to work fine.
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