[bri-guy]

One of the USB ports on my iBook stopped working. I was copying some files to an external drive and I'm afraid the power draw may have damaged it... Or something like that.

Anyone know of a diagnostic tool that can give me some more info on whether this is a permanent state or if can be fixed? Preferably something that wont cost me money or a trip to the Apple store...

[mfbernstein]

Does it show up in System Profiler still? Does System Profiler show any devices attached to it if you attach, say, a USB flash drive or some such? Check the system log to for any relevant error messages (using Utilities/Console Viewer). I assume the external drive was USB-bus powered?

[bri-guy]

The external drive was USB-bus powered. The System Profiler does not show any devices connected to that port.

I've started to look through the logs, but I haven't found anything yet.

I think it's probably dead