Problem with ADS Technolgies USBX-804 USB 2.0 Drive kit

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I had a problem with the Firewire enclosure (also made by ADS
Technologies) that one of my external drives was in. The
bridge adapter kept timing out on me, sometimes even while
Windows XP was reading from the disk. Often this resulted in
the drive light staying on, and a host of paging errors and
delayed write failures on it in the event log. Last night
the enclosure finally gave out on me, with the only sound
when trying to access it in Windows a single click (not a
good sign!). So it put it into my older USB enclosure,
an ADS Technologies USBX-804. It is one of
their older models, I think. The drive in there now was
formatted in the Firewire enclosure, and 152 GB showed up.
Before I moved it into the USB one, it showed 45.7 GB of
free space left, with about 105 GB used. Now it shows 129
GB used, with 22.7 GB free space. The data on it appears
to be OK - it passed a read test. Is it possible that I
have 22GB of bad sectors on this drive, or is it more likely
that what I have here is a bridge BIOS that doesn't support 48
bit LBA? I have used other 160 GB drives in here, and when
formatted, they only show 128 GB. Also, I was unable to
complete a disk check on the drive in there now.
 
I had a problem with the Firewire enclosure (also made by ADS
Technologies) that one of my external drives was in. The
bridge adapter kept timing out on me, sometimes even while
Windows XP was reading from the disk. Often this resulted in
the drive light staying on, and a host of paging errors and
delayed write failures on it in the event log. Last night
the enclosure finally gave out on me, with the only sound
when trying to access it in Windows a single click (not a
good sign!). So it put it into my older USB enclosure,
an ADS Technologies USBX-804. It is one of
their older models, I think. The drive in there now was
formatted in the Firewire enclosure, and 152 GB showed up.
Before I moved it into the USB one, it showed 45.7 GB of
free space left, with about 105 GB used. Now it shows 129
GB used, with 22.7 GB free space. The data on it appears
to be OK - it passed a read test. Is it possible that I
have 22GB of bad sectors on this drive, or is it more likely
that what I have here is a bridge BIOS that doesn't support 48
bit LBA? I have used other 160 GB drives in here, and when
formatted, they only show 128 GB. Also, I was unable to
complete a disk check on the drive in there now.
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yes, if other 160GB drives only show up as 128GB, it doesn't have 48bit
lba.
 
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