On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:55, Dave Lane wrote: > I have tried removable USB drives (Dick Smith sells the caddies for > about $160 which take any 3.5" IDE drive), but had major problems with > USB driver support (USB2 led to consistent crashes, USB1.1 was flakey > and so slow as to be unusable) in the Mandrake 2.4.21 kernel I was > using, although many people with different motherboards report that > their USB drives work fine with USB2. The 2.4.22 kernel supplied with > Mandrake 9.2 seems to work fine so far. And as Jim Cheetham said, the > 2.6 kernel apparently sports a fully rewritten USB layer.
Unfortunately, even the 2.6.0_test11 kernel that I have been using has been failing to write to the disk reliably. However, in the interests of testing I tried the disk on my iMac (only USB1). That also failed after writing a couple of Gb. So I'm prepared to believe that the disk caddy that I have is "useless". It's a "Manhattan USB 2.0 external enclosure" - it looks nice, but that doesn't really count :-( I'll try hunting out another model ... -jim
