Firewire drive issue

[Skoiboy]

I recently bought a Buslink USB/Firewire hard drive which I'm hooking up to
a laptop via firewire. I had to get a 6-pin to 4-pin converter for the
firewire cable in order to hook it up. The problem is that when backing up
the hard drive using Acronis True Image 6.0, the backup starts and the drive
access light comes on and just stays on and eventually the computer loses
the connection to the drive and the image fails. The computer give me the
error: "Delayed Write Failed." If I hook the computer up via USB port then
the backup goes fine (although a lot slower, therefore not the solution).
Anyway, transferring regular files seems to work fine via firewire...

I'm just wondering if the problem could be related to using the adapter that
changes the pins from 6 to 4....should I just get a cable that goes from 6
to 4??? Do you think this is the problem??? I'm running XP...

Thanks!

skoiboy

 

[Skoiboy]

Also, I don't know if it matters, but my drive I'm trying to backup it NTFS,
while the firewire drive is FAT32...I wouldn't expect this to be the issue
though.

 

[Skoiboy]

I do have a Nvidia Geforce 4, but I'm having trouble thinking that this
could be the ulitmate problem. I'm sure there are plenty of people with the
same setup and I can't find anything connecting the two situations together
on the net.

 

[Dave Hau]

Try updating the laptop bios to the latest version if you haven't
already. Also try using a different DOS firewire driver, e.g. try the
one from Symantec:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...ntec.com/techsupp/ghost/&next=&src=csmHù´ýage:

Download aspi1394.sys, edit your config.sys to load this driver, and see
if it fixes the problem with True Image 6.0.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[wally]

Correct.

Not if he's got any files > 4GB on the NTFS partition!

--wally.

 

[Rod Speed]

Not if he's got any files > 4GB on the NTFS partition!

Should still be fine given that its done using an image.
The imaging app should handle that.