Firewire drive issue

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

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" wrote in message
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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

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.



"SimMike-" wrote in message
news:nksKa.19773$XG4.15537@rwcrnsc53...
I had a computer which had the first Nvidia chip set. Whenever I connected
my
firewire drive enclosure to this computer, I got the dreaded "delayed
write
failed" error message. I tried two different Firewire cards, a TI and Via
card,
two or three different cables, including 6 pin to 4 pin, and no matter
what I
did, the firewire drive would not work for longer than a minute or two.
This
same drive works perfect on a variety of other computers, cables and
firewire
boards. I finally sold this computer to someone else, who hopefully
doesn't
install a firewire card. Besides the firewire problems, everything else in
this
computer worked great.

So the gist is: some computers don't do firewire correctly with some
drives. One
further thing, this computer would connect and use my DV camcorder just
fine, so
it was just external drives being the problem.

"Skoiboy" wrote in message
...
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" wrote in message
...
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 lo
ses
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

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/SUPPORT...2%B4%C3%BDage:

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



Skoiboy wrote:
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

In article , "Rod Speed" wrote:

Skoiboy wrote in message
...

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.

Correct.

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

--wally.

wally wrote in message
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Rod Speed wrote
Skoiboy wrote

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.

Correct.

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.


"Skoiboy" wrote in message
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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...