On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 01:47 +0200, Markus Huber wrote: > Joel Jaeggli schrieb: > > Markus Huber wrote: > > > Just formatted a Maxtor 200 GB ATA 133 HD - one partition, ext3. I > > > want to use it in an USB enclosure (CP Technologies CP-U2I-3A). >... > > If your usb enclosure supports 48bit lba block mode it should work > > with any size disk you can buy currently. > >... > Well ... obviously not. The hdd freezes during copying stuff on it. On RHL9, I had trouble with a Maxtor 200 GB ATA133 disk in an USB 2.0 enclosure. While running mke2fs the system would freeze (no blinking lights, no keyboard, no sysrq, etc). However, I was able to run mke2fs while that disk was connected to the IDE bus. Then the disk was swapped back into the USB enclosure and I immediately dumped 80 GB of data onto the disk. It periodically hangs for a second but otherwise works fine. The same enclosure with other (smaller) disks does not hang even while formatting. I have not tried writing above 137 GB. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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