External Travelstar drive is full...but shows 1.49 free space?

[J.Clarke]

On 27 Jul 2003 02:30:08 -0700

Last year I bought a Travelstar 8GB external drive, PCMCIA for my Dell
Inspiron.

Drive properties state capacity is 7.71GB and 6.11GB is used, 1.49GB
is free.

Why can't I save anything else to this disk if there is 1.49GB free? I
really need this space to move files around between drives.

Also -

This drive is very slow when transferring files to and from my primary
drive. I think its a DMA issue, but there is no DMA box to
check/uncheck for this drive.

My primary drive does have the DMA box and it is checked, so is there
anyway to get the DMA option on the Travelstar?

If you have a lot of small files then you may have a lot of partially
used sectors--generally the reporting of space used is based on the size
of the files stored and not on the number of sectors used.

 

[Nymphetamine]

Last year I bought a Travelstar 8GB external drive, PCMCIA for my Dell
Inspiron.

Drive properties state capacity is 7.71GB and 6.11GB is used, 1.49GB
is free.

Why can't I save anything else to this disk if there is 1.49GB free? I
really need this space to move files around between drives.

Also -

This drive is very slow when transferring files to and from my primary
drive. I think its a DMA issue, but there is no DMA box to
check/uncheck for this drive.

My primary drive does have the DMA box and it is checked, so is there
anyway to get the DMA option on the Travelstar?

 

[AJ]

Last year I bought a Travelstar 8GB external drive, PCMCIA for my Dell
Inspiron.

Drive properties state capacity is 7.71GB and 6.11GB is used, 1.49GB
is free.

Why can't I save anything else to this disk if there is 1.49GB free?

Run scandisk so the total is reported correctly.

really need this space to move files around between drives.

Also -

This drive is very slow when transferring files to and from my primary
drive.

A full drive will do that. I run "search" for any files over 20K. Any
I don't absolutly need with me all the time, I burn to a CD.

I think its a DMA issue, but there is no DMA box to
check/uncheck for this drive.

My primary drive does have the DMA box and it is checked, so is there
anyway to get the DMA option on the Travelstar?

If you can't sort that out, keep atleast 15% free space on the drive
for speed. Defrag monthly for the same reason.

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[Folkert Rienstra]

Last year I bought a Travelstar 8GB external drive, PCMCIA for my Dell
Inspiron.

Drive properties state capacity is 7.71GB and 6.11GB is used, 1.49GB
is free.

Why can't I save anything else to this disk if there is 1.49GB free? I
really need this space to move files around between drives.

You have ofcourse run Scandisk?

Also -

This drive is very slow when transferring
files to and from my primary drive.

So how fast is that PCMCIA card of yours (or that
PCMCIA slot, depending on which is the slowest)?

How slow is "slow"? Have you run Defrag?

I think its a DMA issue, but there is no
DMA box to check/uncheck for this drive.

Then assume that the PCMCIA mass storage
driver is using DMA on IDE type drives.

 

[Michael Geary]

Last year I bought a Travelstar 8GB external drive, PCMCIA for my Dell

Inspiron.

Drive properties state capacity is 7.71GB and 6.11GB is used, 1.49GB
is free.

Why can't I save anything else to this disk if there is 1.49GB free? I
really need this space to move files around between drives.

What is the filesystem on the drive (FAT32, NTFS, ?). If it's FAT32, how
many files and folders do you have in the root directory?

-Mike