Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:43:55 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections Message-ID: <42691BBB.5040004@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200504221057.13515.sektie@freebsdgirl.com> References: <20050422144807.37575.qmail@web53606.mail.yahoo.com> <2b5f066d05042207557562b2ca@mail.gmail.com> <200504221057.13515.sektie@freebsdgirl.com>
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Randi Harper wrote: >On Friday 22 April 2005 10:55 am, Brian McCann wrote: > > >>I tried, but I ended up returning the enclosures. I had a problem >>where anytime I would output lots of data to the drive (say 2 PCs >>copying a 4gb file to it), the drive would "dissapear" and hang the >>system. Happened on both Windows and FreeBSD though. IIRC, it was >>the newer Prolific chipset. >> >> > >Don't top post! > > > What she said! :-D >I had the same problem, btw. I have a USB HD enclosure, I forget what chipset. >Any time I transfered large amounts of data, it would lock my entire system. >Fun stuff. I switched to firewire. The performance is heaps better, and I >haven't had any problems with it (yet). > >Randi Harper > > I've not had any problems save these: As OP mentioned, my system only seems to run at 1.0 speeds, and this is a bit of a bummer on large transfers (which is what I intended for its primary use --- backups). Kernel options MSDOSFS_LARGE is experimental and advised to only be r/o. I tend to use 180/200 GB FAT32 drives in these enclosures, and that doesn't work unless you have kernel compiled this way, so I'm stuck needing to use MSDOSFS's that are < 128 GB. If you've had trouble, you might look at your kernel config...? Lastly, I've got the thing opened in front of me, and D*#$&# if I know what chipset it is.... :-D Kevin Kinsey
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