solarbean
05-12-2005, 08:55 PM
I solved a problem and thought I would share what I learned.
We have a pair of 4G 20 gig iPods. (My wife had iPod envy after I got mine :p)
Originally I started using a USB (2.0) connection to our iPods. I had problems getting both iPods set up and connected to the system.. hang problems... yadda yadda yadda... I thought it was the software. Eventually I got both iPods set up and formatted. What an ordeal that was.:(
We had copy problems almost all the time with one iPod and some of the time on the other. ... so I figured the problem was not with the ipods.
I was able to copy to both iPods with no problems using the same USB cable from my work PC, so I deduced it was not the cable.
I was running a year old Windows 2000 installation - ridden hard and put away wet, so I began to suspect the OS Install, so I bought another Hard Drive and installed a sparkly clean Windows XP Pro / SP2 install. Guess what?? Same problems.
The error we see in the windows XP event log after a copy fails is a whole slew of these messages: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.
I saw a different error message on the older Windows 2000 install - different wording.
The problem I typically saw with the well behaved iPod is that during a large copy (say 30 or more songs) it would get part way through, then just stop copying, then give an error message... one of those ugly unable to complete copying - device harddisk x error messages.
I am running an Intel D865GLC motherboard (2.8GHz P4 - mucho Ram.) It has onboard USB. Could that onboard USB be the source of the problem? I had the latest drivers loaded!
K... we had a pile of cheap SIIG Firewire cards laying around at work. I threw one in on the new XP install, plugged in the more problematic of the 2 iPods to the firewire port and Voila... no problems.:) I did not even need to load drivers... XP had one ready to go for me.
I hope this advice helps you :)
We have a pair of 4G 20 gig iPods. (My wife had iPod envy after I got mine :p)
Originally I started using a USB (2.0) connection to our iPods. I had problems getting both iPods set up and connected to the system.. hang problems... yadda yadda yadda... I thought it was the software. Eventually I got both iPods set up and formatted. What an ordeal that was.:(
We had copy problems almost all the time with one iPod and some of the time on the other. ... so I figured the problem was not with the ipods.
I was able to copy to both iPods with no problems using the same USB cable from my work PC, so I deduced it was not the cable.
I was running a year old Windows 2000 installation - ridden hard and put away wet, so I began to suspect the OS Install, so I bought another Hard Drive and installed a sparkly clean Windows XP Pro / SP2 install. Guess what?? Same problems.
The error we see in the windows XP event log after a copy fails is a whole slew of these messages: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.
I saw a different error message on the older Windows 2000 install - different wording.
The problem I typically saw with the well behaved iPod is that during a large copy (say 30 or more songs) it would get part way through, then just stop copying, then give an error message... one of those ugly unable to complete copying - device harddisk x error messages.
I am running an Intel D865GLC motherboard (2.8GHz P4 - mucho Ram.) It has onboard USB. Could that onboard USB be the source of the problem? I had the latest drivers loaded!
K... we had a pile of cheap SIIG Firewire cards laying around at work. I threw one in on the new XP install, plugged in the more problematic of the 2 iPods to the firewire port and Voila... no problems.:) I did not even need to load drivers... XP had one ready to go for me.
I hope this advice helps you :)