Error: "The Device is Not Ready"

[sj26]

I'm trying to figure out what this means. I'm using a notebook on a wireless connection to an ADSL router configured with random ports NAT'd by UPnP. Whenever a torrent is started it'll download for a while (say 5 minutes) and then stop with the status "Error: The device is not ready."

uTorrent 1.1.7.2

Windows XP Pro SP2 (was SP1, same problem)

P-M 1.6 Ghz

512MB RAM

60GB HDD (>45GB free)

Any ideas?

[Animorc]

Do you have any USB-devices connected to the notebook? Try removing them (not the wireless adapter if you have one on USB) and see if the message goes away.

If you have a wireless USB-network device, try installing the windows drivers for it if you have the brandname ones installed, or install the brandname ones if you have the windows drivers installed.

[1c3d0g]

Did you try to manually forward a specific port? Others are also reporting some problems with UPnP, so maybe the implementation is not 100% bug free.

[ironboyzz]

@sj26: Check your energy saving/standby settings.

[sj26]

OK, I've narrowed the field a bit now. Firstly, it's not the connection. I switched to a wired network and this had no effect. I removed all USB devices. I also changed my power settings to make sure everything's on all the time (I suspected it might be the hard drive which was turning off, but I changed this to no effect).

I've also tried disabling UPnP. No difference.

[ironboyzz]

If you have event logging enabled, check the event log and see if there and maybe can pinpoint a device!

Also disable screen saver if enabled! Had a site running an online monitor and for what ever reason screen saver knocked it down.

HTH

[sj26]

I'll check the event logger.

Screen saver is disabled.

I have a hunch that it's the hard drive. It's a fairly recent notebook (~1-2 yo) but I think it's got a 4200rpm hdd which may be causing problems with the number of torrents I'm running simultaneously. I'm trying to max out a 12000 kB/s (1500 kb/s) connection but I can only get it to ~1600 kB/s (200 kb/s), even on popular torrents.

[sj26]

Okay, I checked the event logs and nothing comes up. This is using 1.2 by the way, stil getting the same error, word-for-word.

I'm fairly certain it's the HDD now. Even when increasing the cache to reduce write operations a bit it still chugs along and gives this error.

[xcrazysimonex]

I had this problem found out it was because I had unplugged my external hard drive where I had the torrents downloading to and plugged it back in earlier and I had to reset download location coz it had changed from J: drive to M: