[nreel]

I know that this Thread pertains to the use of a USB External Enclosure with respect to CDROMs but, I thought I would mention this story.

A local KJ Friend of mine used an External USB Enclosure with a MAXTOR Drive.

He always had audio drops and eventually ended up with corrupted KMA files.

He fought this for 2 months as everything went slowly downhill.

He thought he had backed-up his KMA files but turned out he, initially, moved all KMAs to the newly built USB External Drive that, in turn, degraded the KMAs.

He used an ingenious way to find which KMAs were hosed by re-installing an earlier version of Hoster that had the UPDATE KMA function (not EDIT KMA).

He didn't actually change any data, as far as Updating; he simply selected all the KMAs and ran the Update KMA function. As the KMAs were being updated, the Updater would catch all files that were corrupt and, as it turned out, did not Update those bad KMA files.

So, after the Update was done, he opened the Song.MDB and sorted by date to see which files DID NOT have the CURRENT date. Those KMA files, without the Current Date, were obviously the files that were hosed.

He re-imported the bad files, got rid of the External USB Enclosure, hooked the Maxtor Hard Drive directly to the Computer as a Secondary HD, and was back up and running 100%...WITH NO AUDIO DROPS.

Moral of the story, you try to save a buck and use a Make-Shift USB External Drive and you may find yourself in the same circumstance.

If any of you were using an Internal Hard Drive enclosed in a USB External Enclosure and experience Audio Drops, I would suspect the Electronics in USB External Enclosure. To verify, take the Hard Drive out of the Enclosure and Install it Directly as a Slave/Secondary HD in your Computer. If the Audio Drops go away, then you know it was the Enclosure causing the problem.

Hope this helps,

Norm