On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:51 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote: > I was using the generic one, but would that affect the USB2 drive? > How does a standard IDE drive in one of those USB2 enclosures compare > in throughput to an internal mini-ide at 5200rpm? That's probably the problem, the generic IDE driver only supports PIO mode which can disable interrupts for a long time. You need to use the IDE driver for your chipset. What distro are you using? This should really work OOTB. Lee