Lacie Mobile harddrive won't mount on my powerbook with usb 2

Hi, I bought a Lacie 80 GB mobile hardrive with usb 2 and for some reason it will only mount on one of the usb ports and only when I restart. Can anyone give any advice? Should I just take it back and get a firewire version?

Take it back and get the Firewire version.
The USB ports on the PowerBook are underpowered and as a result have difficulty powering USB hard drives.
The solution is either get a externally powered drive or get a Firewire drive.
iFelix

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This happened to me with a LaCie external drive as well.
The problem is that LaCie formats the drives as PC-based
and not Mac Extended, so unless you reformatted the
drives to Mac when you started using them, your access
to them on any Mac may result in a failure to mount.
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because of this formatting incongruity.
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