copying from ntfs to ext hdd fat32 - stalled

[Harry Kuhman]

I have opened many files successfully in my other XP installation - MS Office docs, MPG, AVIs, JPGs. All the way up to 4 Gb AVIs...

Most doc or jpg files are too small to be a valid test. The MPG or AVI would be a good test, but just because you can open and view the first part of a mpg does not mean the rest is good, it would be far better to watch it or skip to the end of the MPG and see if it really is the correct end of the MPG. Good luck.

[dav2900]

LSI said the hardware talks to the OS through the driver so Knoppix must be loading the correct Linux driver, which LSI offers. So far, I've copied ~240 Gb of data and identified some dir's I cant copy because of the media errors.
I'll run a consistency check soon which may be able to move the data to another location on the drive but this process may take 1-2 days to complete. Once I get as much as I can, I have to run Maxtor's diag utility to get the error code to apply for a replacement but to do that, I'll need to buy another SATA card since the LSI doesn't allow the Maxtor utility to see each drive individually. Could easily be another 1-2 weeks before I have everything done to BEGIN the rebuilding process...sheesh!

Anyway, in case anyone is interested, I'll post results as I go along.