trouble communicating

[annaswim]

I get the error

 

 

 

"2/28/2002 6:17:36 PM: Copying Drive C (C:)

 

Trouble writing: "cme102c" (4294904320), error -102 (trouble communicating)

 

2/28/2002 6:21:09 PM: Execution incomplete

 

Remaining: 9213 files, 1.5 GB

 

Completed: 0 files, zero KB, with 0% compression

 

Performance: 0.0 MB/minute

 

Duration: 00:03:32 (00:00:12 idle/loading/preparing)

 

"

 

My computer has no probems otherwise communicating with the drice. I know the drive should be compatible beacause I bought them as a package (40 gb BUSlink usb drive)

 

Please help.

[arcade]

i have the same problem. i take it you are saving to a "file"...?

 

 

 

I believe it is the file limit, on my w2k system this is 4gb... what u may need to do is create smaller back up sets; with less files, so the backup file is smaller.

 

 

 

someone else may prove me wrong - i'd be interested to hear other views!

 

 

 

andy.

[Mayoff]

If you reach the 4 gig file system limit on a FAT32 volume, you may get an error 102, trouble communicating.

[FredG]

> you reach the 4 gig file system limit on a FAT32 volume, you may get an error 102, trouble communicating.

 

 

 

So what's the solution? .....Can't Retrospect backup a hard disk larger than 4GB to a file on another hard disk?

 

 

 

I'm having the same problem as the original post in this thread, and I would expect many people are, considering most hard disks these days are larger than 4GB.

 

 

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.....Fred

[lv2ski]

Retrospect 6.0 can work around this issue.

 

 

 

or you can break up your source (the data you are backing up) and make the backup file less than 4gb. FAT 32 has a limit of a single file being 4gb. Although our new release (due out in a a week or so will work around this).