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    Devices that arent Dell Friendly

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Roadrabbit, Jan 9, 2005.

  1. Roadrabbit

    Roadrabbit Notebook Enthusiast

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    After having recently selling off my Desktop, and getting a beautiful new Inspiron 9200, I have to purchase a secondary storage device to keep all my crap that I dont need to keep on the laptop HDD. So, I go to an online shop I usually use to determine some approximate prices for 3.5" external enclosures. Finding a couple of firewire capable drives, I stumbled across a disturbing statement... "Will not work with Dells due to their proprietary parts & issues".... Huh?

    Has anyone come across this before? Do you have devices that wont work for your Dell machines? I need more Drive space, what can I do?

    Thanks for any help
     
    Roadrabbit, Jan 9, 2005
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  2. cromat44

    cromat44 Notebook Guru

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    can you post a link to that? if its a usb 2.0 or firewire I dont see why brand would affect that...
     
    cromat44, Jan 9, 2005
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  3. Roadrabbit

    Roadrabbit Notebook Enthusiast

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    The website is:
    http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/
    Go to Drives boxes tab and click on some of the models

    Just an update, I have tried a no-brand drive box, and I had absolutely no problems. So in the end, I think this Online store has gotten it wrong or its an isolated problem with a few models in particular.... I dont know... [ :D]
     
    Roadrabbit, Jan 10, 2005
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    astinav6 Newbie

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    I have a noname usb drive with "pro-shen" on the pc board that works with my sons dell 8600 but it won't work with my intel 8165 chipsets on the desktops at work
    i got mine at a computer fair in nsw
     
    astinav6, Jan 10, 2005
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    cromat44 Notebook Guru

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    That is weird... you would think any usb 2.0 device is compaible with any usb 2.0 port... maybe that is out of date and referring to older models... because I have an external drive that is the second one under 3.5" drive cases and it works fine.
     
    cromat44, Jan 10, 2005
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    cyberio Newbie

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    a couple of days ago I bought an 80 GB iomega usb drive. it works beautifully on both my dell latitude d600 usb 2.0 and even on my very old dell inspiron 8100 (bought in 2001) with usb 1.1, on both without having to install drivers beyond what windows xp provides

    i doubt that there is anything "proprietary" with respect to the usb ports on any dell machine :) it sounds like a cheap excuse for defective item(s)
     
    cyberio, Jan 10, 2005
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