05-01-2013, 02:16 PM
(05-01-2013, 12:24 PM)Andy M0FYA Wrote: If I disconnect everything and reconnect all the peripherals via the hub, connected to one of the computers own USB sockets, and add the hard-drive wired directly to one of the computer's own USB sockets , when I switch on again, apart from recognising the extra hard-drive, will the computer be blithely unaware that the peripherals are physically all connected differently?
If you reconnect everything as you have stated the computer will go through the process of recognising which device is connected to which USB socket again as you have changed the configuration. Once its done that then there shouldn't be any problems.
If I was you I would go about it as follows;
1. Disconnect everything and boot up the computer.
2. Connect the external hard drive and let the computer recognise that.
3. Then connect the hub without anything plugged into it.
4. Each of the devices that you are going to connect via the hub one at a time.
It should still work if you connect everything up at once before booting the computer, but doing it individually ensures something does not get failled to be recognised.
Regards
