

This is because there appear to be many reasons for the failure. Unfortunately, there is a lot of information to wade through. If you are having a delayed write failure with a 1394 hard drive, a resolution to your problem can probably be found below. Since then, this site has generated quite a bit of traffic and a lot of useful information has been added from others who also encountered delayed write failures. We detail below how we discovered the root cause of the failure as well as provide links to firmware updates and driver updates.

This blog originally started in August of 2003 with details on 1394 delayed write failures that we encountered. Any reference to this tool below is no longer valid. Note that we have removed the 1394test.exe test tool from our web site.
