<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>>Hi Folk<br><br>>Santa brought me a combo enclosure which accommodates SATA and IDE drives and connects to my PC via USB. I have put in it a spare >80 GB SATA drive. My intention is to use the drive to store data on it rather than boot a distro. I have formatted the drive a number of times >to EXT3 and 4 and also FAT 32 and none of them works well. I can write some data to it but it keeps locking when I try to transfer a large >file say something like a file with a few music tracks on it. I tested the drive and its ok.<br><br>>Any
ideas?<br><br>>Mo<br><br><br>Hi again,<br><br>I have resolved the issue. When I was formatting the drive I did not notice that I should have set the partition to non as it was defaulted to MBR. Its working fine now.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br><br><br><br></div>
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