Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Kip Babington 
<cbabing3@s...> wrote:
> could add another USB card to the computer if that would provide 
better 
> reliability. 

Why not just put in a powered USB HUB for the low speed devices?

I think some of the failures may be chip incompatibilities, but I'm 
not going to say that sometimes there aren't problems with the 
windows driver. Oddly enough, I never have problems with my DVD+-R 
drive in a firewire box, and for the short time (6 months) I ran a 
hard drive in that box, there were no problems. The most common 
offenders are the cheapo enclosures that can be found, not only with 
connection problems, but with overheating of the drive! The 
enclosures I like best (when money is not a concern) were made by 
Accom Data and have an Oxford 911 chip (internal power suply and fan, 
spaced for 5 inch devices). Been working great for more than 3 years 
with various drives installed.

One cheapo enclosure I bought at CompUSA (I forget which chip, but 
not Oxford) not only frys the drive (no cooling fan), but is 
constantly giving me connection time out problems. I don't use it for 
anything but extremely short time transfers since I found how hot the 
drive gets. Delayed write warnings are the most common error with 
that enclosure.