That's an excellent idea, the drive may have some built-in power saving features.
--- John Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that the problems are occurring early in > the morning leads me to > believe the drive may be asleep. (I know this sounds > funny, but I'm serious) > Maybe before backing up, you should make the drive > list it's files or > something like that, so the drive is getting some > activity. This makes sense > because you indicate there are no problems during > the day when the drive is > being accessed frequently. You might even want to > schedule a batch file that > list all the files on that drive and redirects the > output to the external > drive in txt file. > > JH > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Malcolm Greene > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NF] Error writing to external USB drive > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@shelbynet.com > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
