I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
"mga" <tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
> the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
> have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
> problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
Any chance that it's "sleeping" and taking too long to wake up?
Don't know if Seagates utilities work on external drives, but that would be
my next step.
On Dec 28, 10:30*pm, "Calab" <mys...@csd.ca> wrote:
> "mga" <tucod...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
> > the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
> > have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
> > problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> Any chance that it's "sleeping" and taking too long to wake up?
>
> Don't know if Seagates utilities work on external drives, but that would be
> my next step.
No, it happens when I am copying stuff, so it is not sleeping. I don't
have this problem with any of several hard drives up to 500GB. I
suspect that the size of this one might be the problem.
"mga" <tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
> the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
> have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
> problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
is it a home assembled external unit...........some housings only accept or
are guaranteed up to certain capacity drives.
"mga" <tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
> the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
> have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
> problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
You are trying to copy too much information at one time.
Copy large files individually and the rest in cd size chunks.
wasbit wrote:
> "mga" <tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:f831f94b-9c83-45d7-838e-06aa45d5fcec@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>> I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
>> the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
>> have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
>> problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> You are trying to copy too much information at one time.
> Copy large files individually and the rest in cd size chunks.
Holy crap, you just live with such a limitation in your systems?
"wasbit" <wasbit(at)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "mga" <tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:f831f94b-9c83-45d7-838e-06aa45d5fcec@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
>> the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
>> have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
>> problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
>
> You are trying to copy too much information at one time.
> Copy large files individually and the rest in cd size chunks.
There is no such thing... You should be able to copy as much as the drive
can hold in one pass.
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<f831f94b-9c83-45d7-838e-06aa45d5fcec@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> mga
<tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
>the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
>have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
>problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:53:26 -0800 (PST), mga
<tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
>the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
>have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
>problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
If this is a passive enclosure, one that can be reasonably
opened without voiding the warranty (if your warranty is
intact, should you need to return it for refund (I would
suspect replacement, while it could help, might instead just
recreate the problem if using same make and model of
product), then by opening it and pointing a fan at it you
might see if reducing the heat buildup helps.
There are other things to try such a different driver for
the controller this drive/enclosure is connected to.
more-
"Calab" <myspam@csd.ca> wrote in message
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>> "mga" <tucodrat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:f831f94b-9c83-45d7-838e-06aa45d5fcec@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>>>I have an external Seagate 750GB hard drive and it is recognized by
>>> the laptop, but I frequently get a "delayed writing failure" error. I
>>> have turned off "write caching" on the disk, but still have the
>>> problem. Any ideas why this is happening?
>>
>> You are trying to copy too much information at one time.
>> Copy large files individually and the rest in cd size chunks.
>
> There is no such thing... You should be able to copy as much as the drive
> can hold in one pass.
Calab...... and your solution is?
At least the advice that I offered I'm fairly certain will work. It's worked
for me and it's worked for others that I've offered the same advice to.
mga - after a 'delayed write failure' you will probably have to disconnect
the external drive and reboot the laptop before the drive will be seen
again.
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