On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > if you have items of value on that drive, I would hook it to somewhere > you believe it works and back it up. I already did that. The drive works fine if plugged directly into the IDE chain, or when using the external enclosure with WindowsXP. It only gets flaky this way when using the external enclosure with CentOS. Hence I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the enclosure.