On 7/20/06, Grant Hardy <grant_hardy_at_telus.net> wrote:
> My computer hangs when performing operations with my iriver H340 hard drive.
> It did this occasionally with my X5 too. When copying large batches of
> files from the iriver drive, or doing a scan disk, it just seems to hang.
> It doesn't give an error, but there is no disk activity after a while and
> the estimated time remaining, file name, etc. doesn't change. What to do?

Nothing, this is normal.
I have such "hangs" also on my h120, and they simply occur when the
disk buffer is full -- the hard disk in the player isn't as fast as a
usual hard disk. Thus, when the buffer is full copying will "hang"
until the player's disk has actually written the data.

 - Dominik
Received on 2006-07-20