On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:55, Dave Lane wrote:I had a great deal of trouble with this caddy when used with the
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 :-(
built-in USB 1.1 on my stinkpad, fdisk would fail to create parts greater than about 5GB, writes would hang the machine after a few hundred megs etc. _However_ all thr troubles went away after I added a DSE cardbus USB2.0 port to the machine.
Now I have a 160G portable jukebox : )
/chris
I'll try hunting out another model ...
-jim
