{"id":553,"date":"2006-12-07T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/12\/2006_12_07_0803.php"},"modified":"2017-02-10T02:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:29:31","slug":"obsessive-compulsiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/07\/obsessive-compulsiveness","title":{"rendered":"Obsessive compulsive(ness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got some <a rel=\"lightbox[hdd]\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/63\/182115911_9865368ed5_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"You may click on the image for more details\">nice looking external hard disk enclosures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/2005_07_19_1129.php\" title=\"view post\">last year,<\/a> and have been struggling with them since then. Ultimately it was a chipset problem.<\/p>\n<p>They were using the infamous <em>Prolific<\/em> chipset which often resulted to inconsistencies in performance. One day they&#8217;d be working fine. The next, they wouldn&#8217;t mount. Sometimes you&#8217;d have to power-cycle them to get them working again. Other times, you&#8217;d have to take them apart and massage the cables a little (I have no idea why this would work, but I was out of options and tried it &#8211; and it worked) Sometimes if it wouldn&#8217;t load on USB, switching to IEEE1394 would solve it.<\/p>\n<p>They were more reliable in Windows than they were in the Mac. If your machine goes to sleep with them connected, don&#8217;t expect them to wake up along with it.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I decided to replace them with these babies:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a rel=\"lightbox[hdd]\" href=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/101\/316009033_2c6cedf892_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"You may click on the image for more details\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/101\/316009033_2c6cedf892_m.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got some nice looking external hard disk enclosures last year, and have been struggling with them since then. Ultimately it was a chipset problem. They were using the infamous Prolific chipset which often resulted to inconsistencies in performance. One day they&#8217;d be working fine. The next, they wouldn&#8217;t mount. Sometimes you&#8217;d have to power-cycle &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/07\/obsessive-compulsiveness\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obsessive compulsive(ness)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[105,473,530,715],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-astone","tag-general","tag-hard-disk","tag-mac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}