Re: USB External drive problem

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I'll check the indexing issue. The port is definitely USB 2.0. I have
another client with an identical server (Acer G310) and USB drives and
everything works fine.

I've tried other ports on the server as well with no luck.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Dwayne

"Brainwave Surfer" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dwayne wrote:
Hi,

I have a Maxtor OneTouch II USB External hard drive attached to an
SBS2003 server and am having problems writing to the drive.

I can copy large files from the USB drive to a local hard drive in the
server with no issues.

However, when I copy files from a local hard drive to the USB drive,
within a minute or two, all available RAM in the system is used up and
the server grinds to a halt. For example the server might have 500MB of
physical RAM available and then I start the copy of a large file to the
USB drive. The amount of physical RAM drops to near zero within a couple
minutes.

I have two identical Maxtor's and both experience the same issue.
Attaching them to a Windows XP machine has no issues.

I have other clients using the same configuration with no issues.

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Thanks Dwayne
I used to have the same problem with a ADS usb giving errors, (not
grinding to a halt, but anomalous errors in the error log. I could not
replicate the errors by hammering on the drive by moving data.

However, when we turned off indexing (I mean, who looks at files from the
server anyhow???), the problem went totally away. Look at indexing, maybe
it's trying to run?

Also, is the drive USB 1, or is the port on the server USB 1 when the
other one is 2.0? I had to get a card to make the server usb 2.0, and it
worked much better. from using memory as the dynamic write cache,
something's usb 1... maybe....

good luck..

Jim


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