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jcs · 23-02-2004

Thanks for the reply, booma. I did tried connecting the HD to the firewire port of my laptop's card and it improved transfer rate considerably (7.5 to about 20 KBps), so I was able to burn at 4x, without problems. I hadn't realized that USB 2.0 was such a CPU hogger before...

I'm still facing a problem with the HD when using the firewire port, though. When I leave the HD idle for a while (say, 15min or so) the the laptop looks like it stops seeing it correctly. When I tried to access the drive again, it sometimes leaves the computer in unstable state and it invariably end in I/O errors. In one of the ocasions, it even got corrupted the file system structure. I fiigure it may be a problem with drivers but, since you have some experience with using a Firewire enclosure I thought of asking, in case you have seen something like this before.

cheers,
/jcs

23-02-2004	#3 (permalink)
jcs New on Forum Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3	Thanks for the reply, booma. I did tried connecting the HD to the firewire port of my laptop's card and it improved transfer rate considerably (7.5 to about 20 KBps), so I was able to burn at 4x, without problems. I hadn't realized that USB 2.0 was such a CPU hogger before... I'm still facing a problem with the HD when using the firewire port, though. When I leave the HD idle for a while (say, 15min or so) the the laptop looks like it stops seeing it correctly. When I tried to access the drive again, it sometimes leaves the computer in unstable state and it invariably end in I/O errors. In one of the ocasions, it even got corrupted the file system structure. I fiigure it may be a problem with drivers but, since you have some experience with using a Firewire enclosure I thought of asking, in case you have seen something like this before. cheers, /jcs