I just added an older 40gb IDE drive as a slave to use for storage. Copying
small files to it .. no problem. Anything bigger than 2mb and progress
stops, the "countdown" stops, when I can get task manager to come up, cpu
shows 100% use, then I usually have to hit reset to recover. Sometimes
afterwards the D drive doesn't show up in windows at all, until I shut down
for a few minutes and reboot. I ran chkdsk, and it found some bad sectors
and marked them, but didn't help the problem. Could the on-disk cache be
bad, or what else might it be? Using XP SP2.
Thanx.

Run the appropriate drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility!

Disk Diagnostic Utilities from:
Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3

Seagate's SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...loads/seatools

Maxtor's (Now Seagate) PowerMax
http://www.seagate.com/maxtor/

Fujitsu's Utilities
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...utilities.html

Samsung's Disk manager software
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ies/shdiag.htm

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

JS

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>I just added an older 40gb IDE drive as a slave to use for storage. Copying
> small files to it .. no problem. Anything bigger than 2mb and progress
> stops, the "countdown" stops, when I can get task manager to come up, cpu
> shows 100% use, then I usually have to hit reset to recover. Sometimes
> afterwards the D drive doesn't show up in windows at all, until I shut
> down
> for a few minutes and reboot. I ran chkdsk, and it found some bad sectors
> and marked them, but didn't help the problem. Could the on-disk cache be
> bad, or what else might it be? Using XP SP2.
> Thanx.
>
>