NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi,

Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem here?
- NAS Server: NAS2-CD, Dell PIII 866Mhz, 250GB, 80GB, 40GB, 100Mbit nic
- Client: Windows XP SP2, Dell Laptop (D620) using Second Copy to backup VirtualPC Images.

This is 100% reproducable. If I transfer the 16GB VPC Image to my NAS Server, it crashes at around 10%. Symptoms are:
- Copy is aborted
- Windows is unable to connect to any of my drives
- NAS Cannot be accessed via Telnet
- NAS Requires Reboot
- 2 Drives are still okay, 1 drive fails (the one being copied to)
- Failed drive requires Check and Repair which finds bad blocks or something like that, which it repairs.
- NAS Server returns to normal after reboot

Any suggestions or advice would be greatlly appreciated.

Troy

Does this happen only with the specific image in question or any file? You could try a 3GB file and see if it causes the same thing after 1.6GB. How much ram do you have installed and what network interface is used? If the drive is listed with bad blocks.. perhaps its time to replace it?

I know that there are problems if you try to move large files between shares as they do not pass through the client machine and XP gets fed up waiting and aborts the move with an error message. This may be totally unrelated though.....

I did try copying a large file (3GB) and it transferred just fine. I doubt it had to do with the bad blocks though, since after the first crash, the Fix and Repair (I'm presuming) would identify the bad blocks and mark them as such.

Tony indicated that it was probably a IRQ conflict, which I'm guessing is correct. I disabled the COM and LPT ports and anything else I didn't need in the BIOS (although unrelated I replaced the network card to the Intel PRO 1000 MT at the same time), and my 16GB transfer is working great! I'm guessing the network card wasn't the problem, but I can't say for sure.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

Glad to hear its working!