Steve said:
I tried this but it still failed. The error is apply to the share and not to
hard drive...
I may have seen something similar but I'm not sure. There seem to be many
causes of Delayed Write Failed errors.
My solution did involve "shares" but perhaps they are different to the ones
you mean.
I have two PC (PC1 and PC2) networked together at 100Mbit/S via a router.
PC1 has a USB 2.0 hard drive drive attached and it NEVER has a problem
writing to it. However PC2 saw Delayed Write Failed errors writing to the
same drive over the network. Not many - just enough to prevent it being used
as a target for nightly backups.
While looking for a solution I read somewhere that every time the content of
a shared folder is changed messages are sent to all computers/accounts that
have access to the share and that this can cause excess network traffic. I
find that a little hard to believe because imagine what would happen if you
had a program that wrote single bytes to a file in a shared folder - every
byte written would trigger an mass of messages many bytes long to all
computers that might have an interest in that share.
Anyway I tried changing the structure of the shared folders on the USB drive
to see if that made a difference and it did...
Before (with the problem)..
I had a shared folder called "Backups" on the USB drive and arranged for PC1
to write to subfolder "Backups\PC1" and PC2 to write to Backups\PC2 etc.
That set up caused Delayed Write Failures on PC2 only.
After (problem cured)...
I removed the share from "Backups" and shared Backups\PC2 only. (Backups\PC1
does not need to be shared).
This change cured the problem but to be sure I put things back and the
problem returned.
Colin
