Re: "Write delay failed" error on NTFS formated HDs, USB mounted under Win 2000 pro SP4 & XP

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:46:42 +0200, "frischmoutt"
<frischmoutt@xxxxxxx> wrote:


"Chris Hill" <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:52:43 +0200, "frischmoutt"
<frischmoutt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

SystemPages ?
IoPageLockLimit ?
Since I don't know the effects I prefer not to modify them, waiting for
clues.


Here's a clue. Bad drives.

I can't believe: A brand new external Lacie, incoming retested by the
Computer Department of my company, one Maxtor, 40 GB, ATA133 (mine), and
recently another one Maxtor, 20 GB, ATA133 as well (mine). Two different
computers, three different mobile USB adapters.
Failures appear on both computers with each of these equipment. Windows is
well known to have developped this issue on Win2000 & Win XP.

I connected today the 20 GB (NTFS) with an IDE cable. It didn't fail. I
reformated with a FAT 32 partition then I used the same USB-IDE adapter
(supposed to be participating to the failure). No issues.

It's clear that on both computers the problems come with the association of
the USB _and_ the NTFS _and_ huge files. I've no mean to modify the
configuration of the company's computer nor to dive into its guts.
Unfortunately !


First of all, two of the drives are quite small, which means old. The
third could also be bad out of the box. It could have something to do
with usb, but the only way to test it is with decent drives.
.

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