writing 150 GB to a USB / fireware external drive

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Lynn McGuire

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 ?

Thanks,
Lynn McGuire
 
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.
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Try Second Copy
 
Lynn McGuire said:
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 ?
Click to expand...

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
 
I am using Microsoft's robocopy program to copy the drives
Try Second Copy
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I am sure that Second Copy is good software. However, I want exact copies
of my files on the USB drive. I want a mirror image of the drive so that I can
randomly verify the file copies AND so that I can easily restore files, etc...
without having to resort to some software package.

THanks,
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?
Click to expand...

HD Tune at http://www.hdtune.com/ ???
- Is there a freeware tool for windows that can do binary comparison of
files?
Click to expand...

I did get zero errors when I used the firewire interface instead of the USB2
interface. Maybe the USB2 interface is not robust enough for this kind of
traffic ?

Thanks,
Lynn
 
Previously Lynn McGuire said:
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.
Click to expand...
I am using Microsoft's robocopy program to copy the drives
to my external drive.
Click to expand...
Does anyone have any experience here ?
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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
 
HD Tune at http://www.hdtune.com/ ???
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I did get zero errors when I used the firewire interface instead of the USB2
interface. Maybe the USB2 interface is not robust enough for this kind of
traffic ?
Click to expand...

Interesting. No, USB is quite stable enough for this. I have copied up
to 200GB in one go with USB, but under Linux. Seems the USB drivers
under Windows have some issue here.

Arno
 
Arno Wagner said:
Interesting. No, USB is quite stable enough for this.
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Like there isn't an USB said:
I have copied up to 200GB in one go with USB, but under Linux.
Seems the USB drivers under Windows have some issue here.
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Yeah, obviously it can't be the bridge.
 
Hi

Did anybody solve this problem with USB hard drives in windows XP? I
am getting this error when trying to write more than 50GBs or just many
small files to hard drive connected via USB 2.0.

Thank you
Yuriy
 
Hi

Did anybody solve this problem with USB hard drives in windows XP? I
am getting this error when trying to write more than 50GBs or just many
small files to hard drive connected via USB 2.0.

Thank you
Yuriy
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Prolific chip in the external case? Not a windows problem, get the
firmware update.
 
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