Rich, Thanks for the reply. Yep, It has its own power. It's a self contained External USB Hard Disk Drive with a Power Cord that has the AC to DC transformer on the plug end. SEGATE FREE ANGENT - DESK TOP External Hard Disc Drive: http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-drive/computer-hard-drive/ Free-Agent.html RHB On Jan 10, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Richard Klein wrote: > Do you have an AC adapter plugged into the external drive, or is it > getting all it's power from the USB cable? External drives will often > work with only the power from the USB cable, but they'll work more > reliably with a separate power source. > > -- > Rich > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Robert H. Baucom <rbtbcm at owc.net> > wrote: >> Thanks for the input. I have installed the NEW Sonnet USB 2 PCI >> Card. >> The Seagate 500GB free agent USB external Hard Drive still doesn't >> show up >> on the desk top :-( >> Bummer, it has a lot of stuff I brought from Texas that needs to be >> transfered to this Quick Silver. > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4