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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!

I had the same problem, btw. I have a USB HD enclosure, I forget what chips=
et.=20
Any time I transfered large amounts of data, it would lock my entire system=
=2E=20
=46un stuff. I switched to firewire. The performance is heaps better, and I=
=20
haven't had any problems with it (yet).

Randi Harper
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