Re: writing 150 GB to a USB / fireware external drive

Lynn McGuire <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> I am having trouble writing a full copy of our hard drives on
> the company LAN to an external USB2 / Firewire drive. At
> some point, Windows XP starts giving me the message
> "insufficient resources available ...". This is while using the
> USB2 interface. I am now trying the firewire interface to see
> if it works better.
>
> I am using Microsoft's robocopy program to copy the drives
> to my external drive.
>
> Does anyone have any experience here ?
>

Hi Lynn,
my current newest experience is that using badblocks ( Linux' scandisk)
produces inpredictable errors when using an IDE-drive over USB-2.0
external drive kit. This disk is tested error free connected to an IDE
port with badblocks and smartctl tells the same.

Currently I am not shure, where the error comes from.
I would like to do further investigations, both linux and Windows, so my
questions here:

- Is there a freeware tool for windows that is able to do surface medium
tests to an USB connected harddisk which reports verbosely?

- Is there a freeware tool for windows that can do binary comparison of
files?

cu
Sascha

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