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Date:      Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:55:25 -0400
From:      Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>
To:        scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections
Message-ID:  <2b5f066d05042207557562b2ca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050422144807.37575.qmail@web53606.mail.yahoo.com>
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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.

On 4/22/05, scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck in using external USB2.0
> enclosures on FreeBSD 5.3?  I've picked up 2 of them
> with different chipsets and have 2 USB2.0 to IDE
> converter cables.  My kernel has support for ehci so
> that's not an issue, but every time i plug one of
> these devices it, it's detected as da0 and a umass
> device, and I'm told data transfer is limited to
> 1Mb/s.  attempting to mount da0 doesn't work.
>=20
> has anyone had any experience in using these types of
> devices?
>=20
> thanks
>=20
> scott
>=20
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Brian McCann
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