> Allen, > Is this a generic USB sled or is this a prepackaged USB HDD? I've > found a few USB sleds that are useless and have seen the same thing you > reported: Hard locks after a few gigs of transfer. Others are bullet > proof. In fact I do 80gb of backup, in a single copy, every week to one > with ZERO problems. Been going strong now for months. I've also got a > couple of Western Digital USB drives that I use for storing VMWare > images on that I copy back and forth to my laptop with no issues. The > new Seagate drives are crap. They tend to go to 'sleep' on their own and > there seems to be no way to wake them up without restarting them. Of > course that may be fixed. The one I bought went back after I realized > the cause of my problem. > > Garl
The one I experienced is a sled. I bought it long ago. ME-320 ADU235W. A web search finds this (after so many years!) http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1117 Where people are mentioning freezing. So I think you are onto something. As for my friend's experience, I don't know the exact device he was talking to. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug