I have lots of trouble with xcopy copying between HD's

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Jerry Prather wrote:
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>> Hi Folks:
>>
>> I have a Plextor 740 DVD/CD writer and RSJ 6.0.  I can burn a CD
>> without a problem using RSJ.  I can play back CDs with RSJ.  I
>> cannot write a data DVD.  I've doubled the cache and slowed the
>> speed to 1X, and it still fails.  It fails in a rather
>> spectacular fashion: the DVD blank attaches, I start the process
>> with the xcopy command, the computer reports that it is reading
>> the files, the light on the front of the burner flashes, and
>> then after a while everything comes to a screeching halt -- the
>> system has completely frozen up.  This is a hard freeze which
>> requires a power switch cycle and a new boot.  As a result,
>> there are no error logs to be had (that I can find, at least).
>>
>> I've reported this problem before and RSJ hasn't been able to
>> help.  Someone suggested that the power supply might be
>> inadequate.  This made sense, so I upgraded the power supply
>> from 300 W to 375 Watts.  It made no difference.  I then decided
>> that the drive itself must be defective, so I went out and
>> bought another DVD burner.  It fails in exactly the same fashion
>> as the Plextor.
>>
>> Now what?  Could it be that my computer is too slow?  It's an
>> Epox 8 board running an Athlon 800 MHz processor with eCS 1.13. 
>>
>>
>> What is going on when the system freezes?  What is the xcopy
>> function trying to do that it all of a sudden can't do?  I was
>> counting on the burner to provide me with a backup  function,
>> but...
>>
>> All guesses welcome (and actual knowledge doubly so).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jerry 
>>
>>     
> In explicable hangs like this are often caused by conflicts - be it IO 
> address or (more often) IRQ.
>
> Is it possible that you have multiple devices on the same IRQ ? Although 
> modern hardware and eCS have somr plug and play capabilities, the 
> technology still sometimes reverts to "plug and pray" !
>
> The other possibility that comes to mind is a memory problem. I take it 
> you are NOT over clocking the system ?
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> It'd be good to run a memory test utility for 12 hours + to see if it 
> finds any memory chip errors.
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> Other than that, I don't think your machine is too slow.
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> Something else you could try, is using DVDDAO/2 rather than RSJ to write 
> the DVD ISO images - if it completes OK, the problem is with the RSJ 
> software.
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> Cheers/2
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> Ed.
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