[tde-users] Re: message bus - connection refused - WTF? - resolved

On Thursday 28 April 2022 11:38:10 Michael wrote: Just thought that I ought to tell what I discovered. As usual, the solution is something much more unimaginative and basic. Indeed it was merely a problem of lack of power. I was trying to attach 4 different portable USB hard drives to my laptop via an unpowered 4-port USB hub, and my machine couldn't keep up with the demand as I added more video files to the last two of the hard drives. What puzzled me was, they worked just fine for the first four months or so. Both my Belkin USB hub and the mini hard drives (all are WD easystore) themselves have very short cords, and when I set up my laptop, I no longer had anywhere to put the hard drives, and the cords were too short, which would have left them dangling in space. So, the culprit: I used an old USB extension cord to attach the 4-port USB hub to the laptop. The USB extension cord is rather old, and I didn't really give it a thought; but it's probably 1.0, whereas the laptop has 3.0 ports, the hub is 3.0, and the hard drives themselves are probably 3.0, too, I believe. I hope that I can find some newer USB extension cords. I wonder, do they even make them any more? Bill