While I'm waiting on my installs to finish, I thought I would tinker with the Western Digital My Passport Essential WDMENG1600TN 160GB USB 2.0 I thought I was using for my Time Machine Backup for my Mac Book Air. It had stopped working one day.

I've hooked the USB drive up to several computers and I haven't even seen it appear. I tried another WD USB drive and it was working. Anyway, tonight I finally tried changing out the USB cables from the two and it started working. And the "bad" cable worked with the other drive.

I used the WD tools to reformat it back to factory spec and then I couldn't see it on my MBA. I pulled the unpowered Belkin mini-USB hub and plugged it straight in. Joy!

Speaking of which the 4 port mini-USB hub from Belkin tricked me with the packaging. It looked like it had an external power supply tucked in it, but it was only folded paper. This is the hub which rotates. It is called a Swivel Hub. I won't be taking it on trips now.

Anyway, my Time Machine backup is now proceeding from scratch.