Hell yes! I got it working. I decided to ditch the usb hub idea, so I just built a simple Y cable. Man, there is nothing like that feeling of browsing your usb pen drive from your 770 for the first time . Thanks for the help. I went to go read the dmesg log ( a command I embarrassingly did not know about ) and I saw all the proper USB power up messages, so I tried to mount /dev/sda1 and it worked! I can't wait to try out all my other little gadgets!