USB fail

Hi,

I am trying another thread here about failures. I am working with public release modules now, so it should be fine.

Problem is, I might have a failing USB connective. I am using a USB stick to transfer files from Ubuntu on a laptop, and often I get fails.

Problem is, right now I have a file, that transfer badly. It has noise in the beginning, when it has been copied.

BUT when opening the file with MultiViewer, there is no noise. So I am wondering, if it might not be a hw issue but rather a software.

EDIT: If opening the file and saving as with MultiViewer, I get a resulting file with no noise.

@elfpipe
Is it crossdos (fat) filesystem you use for ? If so, then it's known that when you use crossdoss on usb sticks on os4, it can put some noise-junk-trash into the files while copy them in some conditions. Bug reports about created, test cases as well, etc, long ago.

But since some time i didn't have those issues anymore, maybe because of beta USB stack, dunno.

@kas1e
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Really? I don't think I've ever hit that problem, and I've copied a lot via USB in the past.

Mind you, I haven't used USB sticks since I got ZitaFTP Server to a usable state.

Hans

@Hans
That was happens only on x5000 and only with fat32 (so crossdos), and only with usb sticks

@kas1e
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Ah, that explains why I never encountered it. I already had ZitaFTP up and running before I got my X5000.

Hans

Well, I believe I had it happening on X1000 as well. I would get corrupted files and disruption of the copying with error requesters while copying pictures from my camera with DOpus4, at least if there were many files involved.

But it started with some beta version of parts of USB and ended again in beta before any public release, IIRC, so this condition should have been seen only by beta testers.

Best regards,

Niels