[bbwannabe]

Ive recently bought an external case to hold a hard drive (an internal maxtor 80GB IDE 133 hard drive). After a long time trying to get it to appear in window's My Computer, it connected fine. But ive had problems when transferring files to it. On the front of my computer I have 2 USB 1 sockets, and one Firewire socket. At the back I have 2 USB sockets and 2 Firewire sockets.

When i connect it to the front FW, it beeps to say that its detected something attached and the safety remove icon appears in system tray. When i move large files (>100MB) to it, an error appears to say that it the device is not ready (with an exclamation mark in the system tray and the safety remove icon dissappears). Now i unplugged it and tried in the ones at the back. Right hand side Back FW socket, no beeps and wasnt detected. Tried with the back's lefthand one and it beeped. I tried to transfer some files.... it got to 4GB transferred when i got the same error message again.

I know that both USB at back work fine and that one of the two in the front is dead. If i rememeber right it didnt work with the front USB, but i am not to sure if it was because i picked the dead one.
Anyhow if it works fine on USB id be happy but its a USB1.1 connection so it'll be extremely slow compared to the FW card. So id like to find out what the problem is.

My guess faulty FW card, but id like to see what you think it could be before i spent £20 on it. Thx