External Pioneer 109

[bensboss8]

Hi again

I've done some lenthy sufring (very tired now).
I'm getting the impression that my enclosure may be at fault.
The UBS=>IDE=>USB chipset may be the bottleneck.
The enclosure is an 'Aluminium Constar ST-2512B2'
I've opened it up but cant see any clues on the PCB as to what the chipset is.
Apparently, some enclosures will be fine with HDD at high speed but not with fast optical drives.
Any advice?

Does anyone have a neat enclosure which is running a 109 without problems, and preferably a link to where to buy one??

TIA again

[sfheath]

I hear that Firewire external drives can be held back by inferior cables. I wonder if same goes for USB. Have you a good quality cable you can beg/borrow to try?

[bensboss8]

I have two different types of cable.
On came packaged with the enclosure and the other I bought separately. Not sure of either cable's quality but they 'seem' fine and drive performance is always exactly the same, whichever cable I use.

I'm fairly convinced that the enclosure's chipset is at fault.

Someone in the UK must be using a DVD-RW in an enclosure successfully and be able to provide a link to a supplier ??!!??