Re: SATA Write Delay Error

From: Robin (unununium32_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:58:30 -0000

This may or may not help

http://bermangraphics.com/problems/delayedwritefailure.htm

Rob

"hYpO" <masta_ice@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:450a01c3ff0a$de012a40$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hey, i'd appriciate some help on this topis, i boutght a
> new pci to sata card from silicon images sil 3112r with
> software raid, (but not using raid). And a 80 gig seagate
> 7200rpm sata hardie. ok i have the drivers installed
> everythings detected etc. Made 2 partitions on it a 20gig
> fat32 partition and the rest an ntfs patition. someting
> like 56 gig.
>
> Ok now heres my problem i want to use this harddrive for
> backing up my files, just file storage in other words. But
> when i copy files to the fat32 partition it starts copying
> and usually if its a large file i'll get a write delay
> error coming up and my harddrive gets a red "?" on itand
> everything in windows xp thats running just stops then
> starts, like lag or something.
>
> PC Specs are as follows,
> 768 DDR RAM (512 DDR400, 256 DDR 333)
> A7V8X-X motherboard
> Athlon AMD 2000+ XP CPU
> 64MB Geforce 4 Ti 4800-SE
> 20gig seagate 5400rpm IDE hdd (which win xp resides)
> 80gig seagate 7200rpm IDE hdd (backup)
> Pioneer DVD-ROM 120S IDE
> Liteon 52x32x52 CD-RW IDE
>