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Charge FireWire iPods on sleeping Macs
Authored by: magir on Mar 07, '06 01:17:58PM

If the USB-Bus is inactive, recent iPods are not charged, even if current is supplied through the Bus. This also took my by surprise when I noticed it a few months ago.

As it seems, Apple changed the behaviour of the USB port with the G5 and the Nano and this essentially broke support for simple USB power adapters and powered Hubs. Using the Airport Extreme as a power supply still works, because it "mounts" the iPod.

From what I've heard this can be circumvented by connecting both data lines of the USB port. This sounded very strange to me so I never tried that, if someone has more detail on this, please let us know!



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