TC and WD500 External drive - Locks up when copying large files

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TC and WD500 External drive - Locks up when copying large files

I have a TC with a Western Digital 500GB my Book connected to the USB port on the TC that I use for network Storage. Everything works fine until I try to copy large files or directories from the Finder mounted share. After the copy freezes the external drive can no longer be seen by airport utility. If I look at disks it sees the disk but no partition. I have to power cycle the external drive to have TC see the drive again. Then I disconnect the drive and plug it in directly to the MAC and run disk utility and his repairs the journal. I have to do the repair every time it locks up. Should the external drive be formatted different or does it have to be connected to a USB hub. Or is this just a bug with the TC and afp ?

macbook pro intel core 2 duo, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 23, 2008 2:52 AM

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cmdrunix Author

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Jul 30, 2008 3:42 AM in response to cmdrunix

Nobody else is having any issues like this ?? I haven't seen any replies.

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DonH49

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Jul 30, 2008 5:05 AM in response to cmdrunix

if you are in column view try another view.

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Jul 30, 2008 5:29 AM in response to DonH49

What ? The view doesn't have anything to do with the disk freezing -- I have to power cycle the external disk to get the TC to see it again -- I tried seeing it from 2 different MACS after it locks up. Also once I power cycle the external disk -- If I plug it back into a MAC directly and run disk utilty it says it repairs the catalog and journal. Then I plug it back into the TC and try the files moves again and it locks up again. Plug it back into the MAC and Disk Utility says it has to repair it again.

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R. Berardi

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Jul 30, 2008 5:26 AM in response to cmdrunix

have you tried a different cable?
have you tried a different usb port? (if possible)

how is the drive formatted?

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cmdrunix Author

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Jul 30, 2008 5:30 AM in response to R. Berardi

There is only 1 USB port on the TC. No locks ups happen if I plug it directly iinto a usb port on a MAC. It is formatted as ext journaled

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R. Berardi

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Jul 30, 2008 5:40 AM in response to cmdrunix

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6069107

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Sep 3, 2008 12:18 AM in response to cmdrunix

I have this very same problem.
I tried to copy a 4GB+ folder from the Macbook to the 500GB MyBook attached to my TC and it froze.
Now the the files on the MyBook are invisible when attached to the TC ("0 Items") but are available when the drive is connected directly to the Macbook. I have run disk utility but it hasn't helped. The disk is FAT 32 formatted and the files on the MyBook are still invisible over the network.

When the drive attached to the Macbook directly I can see a 'phantom' file with the same title as the 4GB+ folder I'd tried to copy. This file is "ZERO KB" and it cannot be deleted (error code -43).

Anyone have a clue what is happening here?

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