ultra hard drive enclosure problems

shano17 · Rated PG Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

I just got an Ultra products external hard drive enclosure, and I can't get it to work for more than 15 minutes. It works fine for a while, then my computer just stops recognising the drive and i have to disconnect and reconnect it. Does anyone have any advice on how to get this to work, or what might be wrong with it?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:11:51 Post Subject:

What OS? And do you have another cable to try?

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:21:04 Post Subject:

Maybe the disk is going into a sleep state and Windows thinks it's disconnected?

shano17 · Rated PG Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

using XP, and it does the same thing whether using firewire or USB 2.0. I get a "Delayed Write Error" and it can't find the file being written to the drive. It only does this after a while though, it works fine for a bit and the gives the error.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:24:18 Post Subject:

Disable delayed write for that drive. I forget exactly how to do it and I'm not in Windows at the moment, so maybe someone else can tell you or you can google it ;-)

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:18:12 Post Subject:

Foo it... I was gonna write it up, but here's one already done. Laughing

http://www.seagate.com/support/ts/external/errors/01_common.html#delay

shano17 · Rated PG Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

My firewall settings are corrupted, so I can't access the advanced options and resetting to default doesn't help. My windows firewall isn't on though, because I use zonealarm, so I can't see how this would affet it. I also updated USB drivers and nothing has worked so far.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:14:06 Post Subject:

If you haven't disabled delayed write, do that. I had to on my old Archos MP3 player in Windows, otherwise when writing a few gigs of music to it, after about 5 minutes, I'd get those errors.

shano17 · Rated PG Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

I have no idea how to do that. My firewall settings are corrupted and I can' change anything.

T-shirt · Posted: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:10:37 Post Subject: