M
Max Burke
Just installed an 120Gb external HDD through a USB 2 card in a PCI slot.
I can do backups to the drive either by dragging, copying, and with XP's
NTBackup program. Running Chkdsk shows no file system errors or formatting
errors.
Disk management shows the 3 partitions set up on the drive are healthy.
IOW It's all running OK with no conflicts with the MBO USB 1.1 ports except
for the following error messages in the system folder of the event viewer
when shutting down XP.
Error messages.
============
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ftdisk
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 57
Date: 5/08/2004
Time: 8:21:29 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: CRAY1000
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may
occur.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
[And:]
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 5/08/2004
Time: 8:21:29 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: CRAY1000
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging
operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
[and occasionally]
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ntfs
Event Category: None
Event ID: 50
Date: 4/08/2004
Time: 11:56:15 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: CRAY1000
Description:
{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
.. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your
computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file
elsewhere.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
===============
From the links in these error messages it could possibly be a timing
problem. (XP cant write a file to the drive in time, or is writing it too
fast)
I currently have system restore monitoring the drive/partitions, could this
be the file(s) that XP is trying to write to the drive on shutdown?
Is it a good Idea to have system restore monitoring an external drive?
Hardware details.
The HD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 120Gb drive with an 8Mb cache
installed in an ICT USB 2 external drive case..
The USB 2 card is an NEC 4 port USB 2/PCI card.
XP starts up and shuts down OK, with no delays...
I'm running XPH with SP1, and current with all updates.
I can do backups to the drive either by dragging, copying, and with XP's
NTBackup program. Running Chkdsk shows no file system errors or formatting
errors.
Disk management shows the 3 partitions set up on the drive are healthy.
IOW It's all running OK with no conflicts with the MBO USB 1.1 ports except
for the following error messages in the system folder of the event viewer
when shutting down XP.
Error messages.
============
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ftdisk
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 57
Date: 5/08/2004
Time: 8:21:29 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: CRAY1000
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may
occur.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
[And:]
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 5/08/2004
Time: 8:21:29 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: CRAY1000
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging
operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
[and occasionally]
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ntfs
Event Category: None
Event ID: 50
Date: 4/08/2004
Time: 11:56:15 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: CRAY1000
Description:
{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
.. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your
computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file
elsewhere.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
===============
From the links in these error messages it could possibly be a timing
problem. (XP cant write a file to the drive in time, or is writing it too
fast)
I currently have system restore monitoring the drive/partitions, could this
be the file(s) that XP is trying to write to the drive on shutdown?
Is it a good Idea to have system restore monitoring an external drive?
Hardware details.
The HD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 120Gb drive with an 8Mb cache
installed in an ICT USB 2 external drive case..
The USB 2 card is an NEC 4 port USB 2/PCI card.
XP starts up and shuts down OK, with no delays...
I'm running XPH with SP1, and current with all updates.