Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Martin McCormick
Things are much better here. Tech Support at Crucial insisted that every drive they ship out contains 1 usb-C to usb-C cable and an adapter to make it fit a usb-A port. I figure it had accidentally been discarded as trash or was really left out but I kept looking and found the little box the driv

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > If I recall correctly, Martin doesn't see well, which explains a > chunk of the confusion here. Well, my wife has excellent vision and we were talking about how pictures can be almost worthless after a certain point. Several of those small connectors look similar. A

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 feb 20, 09:47:50, Jude DaShiell wrote: > That sounds like a Micro usb port. If you have a connector like that > try inserting it very gently. If it doesn't go in easily, flip the > cable and try the other side. The regular Micro-B connector supports only USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 Micro-B c

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > After recently ordering and receiving a new 1 TB external > SSD drive, I realized I had no way to connect it. It has a small > rectangular slot about 8 MM or a quarter of an inch long. A Mac > lightning connector is almost exactly the same size but > fortunately d

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
ebian.org > Subject: Re: usb Confusion > Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:48:04 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > That sounds like a Micro usb port. If you have a connector like that > try inserting it very gently. If it doesn't go in easily, flip

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
That sounds like a Micro usb port. If you have a connector like that try inserting it very gently. If it doesn't go in easily, flip the cable and try the other side. On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:31:37 > From: Martin McCormick > To: debian-user@lists.

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Martin McCormick wrote: > After recently ordering and receiving a new 1 TB external > SSD drive, I realized I had no way to connect it. It has a small > rectangular slot about 8 MM or a quarter of an inch long. A Mac > lightning connector is almost exactly the same size but > fortunately does

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
On 2/11/20 8:31 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > After recently ordering and receiving a new 1 TB external > SSD drive, I realized I had no way to connect it. It has a small > rectangular slot about 8 MM or a quarter of an inch long. A Mac > lightning connector is almost exactly the same size

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
Martin McCormick composed on 2020-02-11 07:31 (UTC-0600): > After recently ordering and receiving a new 1 TB external > SSD drive, I realized I had no way to connect it. It has a small > rectangular slot about 8 MM or a quarter of an inch long. A Mac > lightning connector is almost exactly