USB "delayed write failed" Anyone knows why ?
"R.Wieser" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Hello all,
On a machine runnung XPsp3 :
A while ago tried to copy a couple of 1...4 GB files to an USB stick, and
it threw the "delayed write failed" error (after a couple of hundred MByte),
after which the machine froze and I had to power-cycle it to get it to
respond again (not even the task-manager wanted to come up).
A bit of googeling gave me the answer : unticking "Enable write caching on
the disk" - even though that was in a section that was grayed out because
its parent, "Optimize for performance", wasn't selected ("Optimize for quick
removal" was).
No, the question is not why I had to untick something in a grayed-out
section, don't worry. :-)
My question is even worse than that :
Does anyone know (or have a link to an MS article to) why that the "delayed
writing" (which I assume was still doing its job) causes such a big problem
?
And don't worry, its just curiosity. There is nothing hanging on the
answer.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser