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



Previously Lynn McGuire <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 ?

This should be a software issue. USB uses the SCSI command set
for external disks and can support 2^64 sectors, i.e. more than
likely available for the next few decades, maybe centuries.
Firewire will not help, unless MS wrote some really stupid
drivers.

Arno

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