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USB Battleship hub not working on 2010 MBP 13"

ohla313

ohla313

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Apr 24, 2010
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I just got the USB Battleship that was featured in this Gizmodo article: http://gizmodo.com/5690726/all-peripherals-on-deck-this-is-a-usb-hub-you-can-actually-buy

I plugged my printer, card reader, external hard drive, my backup hard drive into it and the drives made clicking sounds and didn't appear on my desktop. So I unplugged them and tried the ports on my MBP. It worked so the USB battleship wasn't functioning. What could be the problem? Not enough power? Any way to fix this?

Thanks.
 
Your hard drive is clicking because it doesn't have enough power to function through the hub. It is splitting 1 usb into 5, the power isn't going to be there.
 
Both hard drives are portable externals. So is there any way to make them work through the hub? I did try putting just one in and it still wouldn't work.
 
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