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Caroline
Hi!
Got a 60gb Maxtor drive which has been working perfectly well as the
boot drive in my last system. It's now mounted as secondary master on an
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe/Athlon XP3000/1gb Crucial RAM system which has a
Maxtor 120gb serial ATA drive as the boot drive. I really want to use
the 60gb drive for backups. That means some pretty big files from time
to time - trying to backup my boot partition is a 11gb file, for
example, and my photo collection nearly 10gb.
Using a variety of backup software, including Windows backup (forgot to
mention o/s: XP Pro/SP1), the drive sicks up with a delayed write error
usually around 4gb - 6gb file size. I've discovered I can delay the
onset of this by minimising anything else running on the system (which
puzzles me somewhat - my CPU is hardly a slouch and running around 14%
usage).
Googling the newsgroups told me a) I'm not alone and b) no-one's really
got this problem cracked. But here's what I wondered; since I'm not
getting any kind of problem on my serial ATA drive, should I get a
PATA-SATA convertor for the 60gb drive and hook it up to the other S-ATA
connection? After all, I understand the Maxtor s-ATA drives are really
PATA with the convertor built in.
Has anyone tried this solution? Is it a loopy idea, or am I on to
something? Perhaps more relevantly, is anyone out there getting the
delayed write fail errors on their SATA drive?
TIA
Caroline
Caroline Picking, (e-mail address removed)
Milton Keynes, England.
Got a 60gb Maxtor drive which has been working perfectly well as the
boot drive in my last system. It's now mounted as secondary master on an
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe/Athlon XP3000/1gb Crucial RAM system which has a
Maxtor 120gb serial ATA drive as the boot drive. I really want to use
the 60gb drive for backups. That means some pretty big files from time
to time - trying to backup my boot partition is a 11gb file, for
example, and my photo collection nearly 10gb.
Using a variety of backup software, including Windows backup (forgot to
mention o/s: XP Pro/SP1), the drive sicks up with a delayed write error
usually around 4gb - 6gb file size. I've discovered I can delay the
onset of this by minimising anything else running on the system (which
puzzles me somewhat - my CPU is hardly a slouch and running around 14%
usage).
Googling the newsgroups told me a) I'm not alone and b) no-one's really
got this problem cracked. But here's what I wondered; since I'm not
getting any kind of problem on my serial ATA drive, should I get a
PATA-SATA convertor for the 60gb drive and hook it up to the other S-ATA
connection? After all, I understand the Maxtor s-ATA drives are really
PATA with the convertor built in.
Has anyone tried this solution? Is it a loopy idea, or am I on to
something? Perhaps more relevantly, is anyone out there getting the
delayed write fail errors on their SATA drive?
TIA
Caroline
Caroline Picking, (e-mail address removed)
Milton Keynes, England.