From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 15:43:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE83516A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:43:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6352143D58 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:43:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:42:48 -0500 Message-ID: <42691BBB.5040004@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:43:55 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randi Harper References: <20050422144807.37575.qmail@web53606.mail.yahoo.com> <2b5f066d05042207557562b2ca@mail.gmail.com> <200504221057.13515.sektie@freebsdgirl.com> In-Reply-To: <200504221057.13515.sektie@freebsdgirl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Apr 2005 15:42:49.0500 (UTC) FILETIME=[F0096DC0:01C54751] cc: scott renna cc: Brian McCann cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB2.0 External IDE connections X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:43:58 -0000 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