<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">> Hartmut, can you elaborate on why you think you need to connect this drive to a PC directly, in the first place? There may be a better solution for your problem.</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Thank you to all the folks here who responded.</span><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"> I hope to produce a detailed reply during the coming night, so please be patient, and "hold your further fire". :) As some of you know, my neurology limits how quickly and how thoroughly I can respond.<br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Hartmut</span><br></div></body></html>