XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-04-04 12:28, Java Jive wrote:   
   > On 2025-04-04 10:36, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On 2025-04-04 05:33, Paul wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> The work you are doing, is similar to the work an enclosure   
   >>> engineer might do, before shipping this project. Each user   
   >>> apparently expected to "sweep the web", "look for bootleg firmware",   
   >>> "install" and "hope for the best". A science project.   
   >>   
   >> That's out of my league :-(   
   >   
   > Should you not just return it as not being fit for purpose?   
      
   Sure, but which one can I get instead?   
      
   Probably all 5 disk enclosures will be using the same chipset. I can   
   instead buy 9 or 10 individual, one disk enclosures, with their 10   
   separate power supplies. I would need an insane cabinet space, too.   
      
   I would have to cancel the project, and return the hard disks, too.   
      
   >   
   > I'm not sure how much help, if any, the following will be, because it's   
   > not quite the same sort of thing that you've bought, but I have an   
   > external drive bay based on an JMS56x chip, and by and large it works   
   > fine.  In Windows, occasionally it doesn't register when I plug it in,   
   > but that doesn't happen very often, and usually unplugging it, removing   
   > ghost devices from Device Manager in Windows, and plugging it back in   
   > will get it to work.  AFAICR, I've not had any problems with it under   
   > Ubuntu.  Perhaps I should note also that I've not tried to use all the   
   > functionality of it, for instance using it to copy disks directly.   
   >   
   > It's this:   
   >   
   > https://www.amazon.co.uk/RSHTECH-Aluminum-Multifunction-External-Tool-   
   > Free-Black-Housing/dp/B07WNPG6KP   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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