Errors transferring books to sony PRS-650

[Suffolk Punch]

Hi there!

I'm having great difficulty transferring EPUB books to my Sony PRS-650. The transfer rate is painfully slow apparently because of paging errors. I'm succeeding in moving books across but something is not right.

I hope someone can help.

(I get no such problems - on the same PC - when I transfer MOBI books to my Cybook Gen3).

The nitty-gritty details:
Calibre 0.7.20 running on Windows 7 Home Edition (64 bit)

Copy of Calibre error log:
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(13, 'Permission denied')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 67, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 338, in _upload_books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\usbms\driver.py", line 186, in upload_books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\usbms\cli.py", line 60, in put_file
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
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Copy of event viewer entry:
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Log Name: System
Source: Disk
Date: 30/09/2010 19:49:06
Event ID: 51
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: zoom-ufford
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk6\DR55 during a paging operation.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Disk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">51</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-09-30T18:49:06.109757200Z" />
<EventRecordID>38828</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>zoom-ufford</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Harddisk6\DR55</Data>
<Binary>040080000100000000000000330004802D01000016 00008000000000000000000000000000000000C04C2D000000 0000FFFFFFFF01000000580000160000000000200A12800020 40000400003C00000000060000000000000847710280FAFFFF 0000000000000000D0637F0280FAFFFF1020620580FAFFFFA1 0C0000000000002A0000000CA1000002000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
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Martin

[kovidgoyal]

try reformatting the reader memory (there should be an option for it somewhere in the reader menus)

[Suffolk Punch]

Thanks Kovid.

I've finally got Calibre to transfer all my books to the sony prs-650 without errors and resaonably quickly.

In case anyone else is experiencing a similar problem, here's what I did:

1. Reformatted the reader's main memory (following your suggestion). On the PRS-650 it's under Settings>Initialization>Format Memory>Internal memory

2. Plugged the 650 into the PC and ran error-checking on the main memory (the READER partition).

3. Then tried plugging the 650 into USB socket at the *back* rather than the front (which I had been using up to this point).

4. Fired-up Calibre and got it to manually transfer about 180 books in blocks of 20.

5. Closed Calibre, ejected the 650, and voila - all the books and the collections based on series and tags were present and correct!

Martin