G4 iBook 14 inch not recognizing portable HD

I'm in Japan.
Today I got a Buffalo portable HD.
Plug it in.
Nothing.
What am I missing?

kramoel wrote:
I'm in Japan.
Today I got a Buffalo portable HD.
Plug it in.
Nothing.
What am I missing?
OK. I'm guessing it's bus powered and you're not getting enough power to it with your machine. Some bus powered drives will work with overspec USB ports, but will require more power with standard spec USB ports.
There are special "Y" cables which plug into two USB ports to extract more power. Does it come with a power adapter port?
While you may not be able to see it in Disk Utility, I would guess that you should be able to open up System Profiler, check the USB section under Hardware, and see your drive in the USB Tree. I've seen that myself with a SimpleTech Pinifarina design drive.

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