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Snow Leopard Compatible Drivers for Moschip MCS7720 USB-to-Serial Controller
We are using Cables Unlimited USB-2925 USB-to-Dual-DB9 serial cables, which use the Moschip MCS7720 controller. We have downloaded the newest driver from http://www.moschip.com/mcs7720.php, but that ...
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Hard drive not recognized on MacBook when connected to 7 port USB hub
I bought an active 7-port-USB-Hub to avoid all the cable mess on my desk. The following devices are plugged in:
Scanner (which is not being used, actually)
Keyboard
Mouse
Android-Phone
When I now ...
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USB mouse for Mac
I'm looking to buy a relatively cheap, but decent USB mouse for my Mac laptop. If I just buy a random one, what are the chances that it'll "just work" on the Mac. I guess I'm trying to work out ...
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Booting up a Mac from the USB flash drive
Is it possible to boot from a USB flash drive on a Mac?
Current setup is an iMac (early 2008) running Snow Leopard. What do I need to do to have the Mac boot from the USB stick?
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Should a Mac mount an USB external NTFS drive by default?
I Have an External USB hard disk (Seagate 500Gb) which came formatted as NTFS which I want to use to back up a friend's slightly creaky G4 MacBook. When I plug the drive in however, it does not appear ...
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External USB disk won't mount
I have an external LaCie HDD that connects via USB to my computer. It was working fine, but now it won't appear on the Desktop, in the Finder, or in Disk Utility.
I know it's connected, because ...
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How to boot a Linux live USB on a Mac?
I have a USB stick with a Fedora 11 live environment on it.
It's booting fine on 3 PCs where I've tried it.
But I can't get it to boot on a Mac (Intel). When pressing the alt key (or command key, I ...
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External USB disk causing OS X shutdown to hang
I'm looking at an iMac running OS X 10.5.8 and it has an annoying problem.
It has an external USB disk for Time Machine and it will normally shutdown okay.
However if the machine has been asleep and ...
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Can Apple Macintosh computers boot from a USB volume?
Can I attach a USB external drive to a Mac and boot from it?
Specifically, will I be able to install Snow Leopard from an external USB DVD drive on a modern Intel Macbook?
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