HELP: External 250G USB screwed with GParted

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:02 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 22:14 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > All of the trivia quoted above is absolutely pointless with the
> > exception that you want to use pointless trivia to proffer your
> > knowledge. 
> 
> What you call "trivia" is factual information about what's involved.
> You wanted me to back up my assertion, I've just explained all the
> background information for you.  Now you want to call the information
> that explains it as pointless.  Since you don't understand it, ask
> someone else to confirm it for you.
> 
> You remind me of lay people who, upon being advised by their doctor, who
> actually know what they're talking about, say "pfft, what would they
> know?"
> 
> > If you actually knew of some commercial USB cable that was being sold
> > that was incapable of handling USB 2.0, you might have actually
> > offered information that was useful to someone.
> 
> Do you realise how stupid it is to even ask that?  How many hundreds of
> brands may be available for purchase?  How many different brands in
> different places that aren't available at the other places?  How many
> that are fine, but aren't mentioned by someone, so people won't buy
> them?  How many of the same product are sold by different labels?  How
> many of different products are sold under the same label?
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I was hoping that you could name just one commercially available USB
cable that was not usable for USB 2.0

Craig