On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 10:05, Jim Cheetham wrote: > 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". I was going to mention the possibility of hardware failure. As far as the OS is concerned a IDE HDD in a USB enclosure is the same as a solid-state USB "pen" drive: a SCSI HDD attached to the USB bus. If writing fails for one but not the other I would suspect a hardware fault.
If you had the time, money and inclination you could try Firewire (IEEE1394). I understand that it has /slightly/ better transfer speeds than USB2 (despite the what the raw MB/s say). -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
