On 11/11/09 13:34, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/10/2009 04:52 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
However, the second Seagate appears to be OK, and I used it for my wife's computer last weekend to install 11.2. All went well, and she now has 11.2.
*But*, it takes forever for 11.2 to boot on her machine :-( . And after it does, the "HD in use" light remains ON.
Cabling and Bios Settings is my bet. It could also be that the disk drivers are not getting properly loaded the firs time you boot up in the morning due to the drives not being ready immediately, which again sounds like cabling and bios settings.
There may also be some jumpers on the drive, although you didn't mention what cable interface these drives use.
My concern now is: is there a problem with *this* Seagate HD which should also be replaced by the shop or is there something else which needs to be done to stop the "HD in use" light showing?
I'm betting you have two GOOD drives. Any chance of finding another computer to test these on?
The problem - which has me totally bamboozled - is that I can copy, using mc (midnight commander), files from the 'old' installation/s of XP to the external USB and then can copy using mc from the external Maxtor to the partitions on the new installation of XP.... *BUT* I am unable to copy the same files from external USB Maxtor to the new XP installation using anything from within the newly installed XP :-( : there is a "pretend" copy of the first couple of files but then the whole process slows to ~20kb/s, and in the final result NOTHING has been copied- the file name/s contain/s 0 bytes. The error message in XP is, if I recall correctly, is along the lines of, "cannot write to the destination <disk/directory>" or similar.
XP driver problem. See if there is a "legacy" driver for XP for that USB controller. (There may be a bios setting for this as well).
I had a similar problem with disks in a Firewire external enclosure. Copy would start, slow to nill, and maybe pickup again, but only when using Vista or Windows 7. With OpenSuse it was very fast. Microsoft Tech support suggested finding which Firewire controller it was attached to, and choosing the "Show me the list and let me select" option, and picking the legacy driver. That fixed it and the Windows 7 machine copies 30% faster than the Linux machine.
Thanks, John, for the input. I'll mull it all over and respond in detail later. I felt that I needed to say something now so that you didn't think I ignored your post. The HDs are PATA, sitting in cradles so that I can move them from computer to computer - or to the secured area when we leave the house unattended for a few days :-) . oS installed on an (ancient) Quantum Fireball with same cabling setup works perfectly on my wife's computer. Go figure. Re the XP/external Maxtor: SP2 for XP has the "fix" for USB 2. I have used another Maxtor in an external casing until very recently when I bought the present external 500GB Maxtor. I'll check out the driver factor, but was also wondering if there had been a change to the ntfs since XP came out - but I see that according to the wikipedia there has not been any changes. At this point I am leaning towards Mike's suggestion about permissions..... This is the first time I am fooling around with installing XP for many a year so perhaps I stuffed up with not allowing "myself" access to all the files :-) . Or, because the 500GB Maxtor came as a factory formatted drive perhaps the glitch is being caused at this source. In the final analysis, I can copy all the files using mc so the problem can be pushed back, until I use the new Maxtor for backups of something from (the new install of) XP :-) . I'll get back to you re this. BC -- I work to live not live to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org