Thinkpads Forum

Hi,


I have an external USB-eSATA harddrive, which I use with my thinkpad (+eSATA expressCard). Transfers of large directories (2-3 GB) from laptop to drive induce freezing of the system after the directory has been partially transferred. After some time XP displays the error " Delayed Write Failure".

This problem occurs with both transfer types USB and eSATA (although it hangs even faster with eSATA).


The drive is formatted in NTFS.


Any ideas?


Thanks

Assuming that you don't have a hardware problem (and I am not sure that is a valid assumption) you might try the following, registry hack if you have 1 ~ 2GB or more of memory.

Thanks for the link.

However it does not help. The external hardware (disk+enclosure) is probably ok, as it works on another computer.

Thinkboy wrote:The external hardware (disk+enclosure) is probably ok, as it works on another computer.

Maybe, maybe not.

If you are connecting via eSATA, which Express card *exactly* is providing the eSATA port on your ThinkPad?

Cheers,

Bill B.

bill bolton wrote:

Thinkboy wrote:The external hardware (disk+enclosure) is probably ok, as it works on another computer.

Maybe, maybe not.

If you are connecting via eSATA, which Express card *exactly* is providing the eSATA port on your ThinkPad?

Cheers,

Bill B.

Well he states that it occurs with both USB and eSATA if the drive and enclosure work on another computer, that would suggest it is a problem with his computer to me and not simply the card.....

hello,

it is this card:

http://www.syba.com/Product/Info/Id/62

Solved:

The enclosure does not work with my Thinkpad. It was a Z1 enclosure from Kingwin.

I bought a new Antec Veris MX1 enclosure which works perfectly with USB and eSATA.

Thanks for your help!