I recently purchased a Lindy 42937 USB/eSATA/FW400 enclosure which houses an Optiarc AD-6240S DVD burner. This was a replacement for an earlier IcyBox enclosure which had a Prolific FW chipset - known for having problems with OSX Snow Leopard. The Lindy box uses the Oxford chipset which is supposed to be more reliable.
Initially all went fine but over the last couple of months I have a failure rate burning CDs or DVDs (using Toast 10 and Verbatim discs) of 50%. I get unstable connection or disk error-type messages and the disc burn fails part of the way through the burn. I can always burn reliably using the inbuilt Matshita drive - it's just slower, noisier (and region-locked which the external drive isn't).
I put this down to similar FW issues I was having previously and switched to the USB connection. This too fails much of the time. The drive also disappears after the iMac wakes from sleep - turning it off and on re-registers it most of the time but it's a real pain when you've set up Toast and a burn project and can't simply restart where you left off the previous night.
It's not the drive itself as this works absolutely fine in a PC internally and externally. It's not the iMac or Toast as it works fine with the internal burner. This leaves only the Lindy enclosure which was an expensive and supposedly top-quality one or something in SL continuing to hamper external drives, esp FW.
I've repaired my HDD and file permissions and have all latest patches and Toast updates. All I want to do is burn discs consistently and reliably. It's not too much to ask!
Any suggestions?
Initially all went fine but over the last couple of months I have a failure rate burning CDs or DVDs (using Toast 10 and Verbatim discs) of 50%. I get unstable connection or disk error-type messages and the disc burn fails part of the way through the burn. I can always burn reliably using the inbuilt Matshita drive - it's just slower, noisier (and region-locked which the external drive isn't).
I put this down to similar FW issues I was having previously and switched to the USB connection. This too fails much of the time. The drive also disappears after the iMac wakes from sleep - turning it off and on re-registers it most of the time but it's a real pain when you've set up Toast and a burn project and can't simply restart where you left off the previous night.
It's not the drive itself as this works absolutely fine in a PC internally and externally. It's not the iMac or Toast as it works fine with the internal burner. This leaves only the Lindy enclosure which was an expensive and supposedly top-quality one or something in SL continuing to hamper external drives, esp FW.
I've repaired my HDD and file permissions and have all latest patches and Toast updates. All I want to do is burn discs consistently and reliably. It's not too much to ask!
Any suggestions?
