Error message while Copying from one External HD to another

Hi all, I am trying to copy my music library to a new external HD from my old one, they are the same drive but one is bigger. My collection is about 300 gb. When I go to copy it it will get a few gigs into the transfer then an error saiy, "-36 error some of the data in a particular file cannot be read or written.
I thought I may have corrupt files so I tried to play the track in itunes, the track crashed about 15 sec in and made itunes frreeze. So I deleted it. I continued to do this for each track that had issues, but It seems like its going to be a long time.
I also got the error message for one track that played perfectly in itunes, so now i dont know what the problem is.
Does anyone know of a program I can use to determine if tracks are corrupt? Or a solution to this issue?
I also went into disk utility and it says both drives are working OK.
I would aprreciate any help, thanks

Use Get Info on both the volumes in question - assuming neither are your system or time machine disks. If there is an option for ignoring ownership - way at the bottom of the Get Info window - select it to cause ownership to be ignored. Try copy again.
I am about 100% sure this might possibly perhaps kind of hopefully help. But it wont hurt either... and I am also assuming you have used disk utility to repair both disks. And if one is a new drive... go ahead and reformat it first.

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Hardware:
Apple Powermac Dual 2.5 GHz G5
512 MB RAM
External Drive 1: LaCie 250 GB (Firewire 800) (contains 150 GB data) (formatted MacOS Extended)
External Drive 2: LaCie 400 GB (Firewire 800) (contains NO DATA) (formatted MacOS Extended Journaled)
Software:
Mac OS 10.4.3 (Tiger)
I've sucessfully run the firmware updater (http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers) "LaCie Update Tool v1.3.3" for both LaCie drives to the latest version - 107.
Background:
Before I updated to the latest firmware and before I changed Drive 2 to journaled, I had problems copying files from both drives to the other. I get this error: "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "filename here.ext" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)."
I did some research (http://www.appleerrorcodes.com/) to discover that Error -36 is an I/O error.
My goal is to reformat Drive 1 (250GB) to journaled. After some reading, I have decided to do that for both of my external drives.
Question:
I'm at the point now where I need to copy the data from Drive 1 to Drive 2 and this error is still occuring. I need to 1) understand why it's happening and 2) find a solution so I can copy this data from Drive 1 to Drive 2.
Future Question:
Once the data is copied, I will then reformat to journaled. I'm then going to decide between scheduled backups or setting up a RAID, but I'll post this issue as a separate question. I first need to understand and fix this copy I/O stuff.
THANKS!
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Using the Disk Utility with the Mac OS, I just realized that I can't verify or repair disk permissions on either of these external LaCie drives. I can on my startup internal disk, but not the external ones. Any idea why?
I replaced the FW800 cables, but I still cannot copy from one external to the other. The connections are like this:
Drive 1 (250 GB) is connected to the back of my G5 via FW800.
Drive 2 (400GB) is connected to Drive 1 via FW800 cable.
I'm in need of some help!
Robert
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Here's the fix....for error message "your file name is too long to be copied, deleted, renamed, moved" :
1.   problem is this: the "file name" has a limit on number of characters.....the sum of characters really includes the entire path name; you gotta shorten it first (i.e, if the total number of characters in the file name + Path name are over the
limit, the error appears). The deeper your file folder sub levels are, the more this problem will come up, especially when you copy to a subfolder of a subfolder/subfolder of another path ...adds to character limit)
2. How do you know which combined file names + path names are too long if you are in the middle of a copy operation and this error pops up? Some files copied but the "long files error message" says "skip" or "cancel" ... but not which
files are the "too long" ones. If you hit "skip" or "cancel" the "too long" files are left behind...but are mixed in with non-offender "good" "short name" files.   Sorting thru 1000s of "good" files to find a few "bad" ones manually is impractical.
3.   Here's how you sort out the "bad" from the "good":
4.    Let's say you want to copy a folder ..."Football" ...that has five layers of subfolders; each subfolder contains numerous files:
C:/1 Football / 2 teams/ 3 players/ 4 stats/ 5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong
       There are five levels root "1 football" with subfolders 2, 3, 4 and lastly "5 injuries"
5.    Use "cut" and "paste" (for example to backup all five levels to a new backup folder):
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character limit"...instead "paste" to a C:/ root directory.
       Suppose in the middle of this operation...error pops up: "5 files have file names that are too long" Skip or cancel?
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6.    Now go back and look at the source location: since the software allows only the "good" "short name" files to be copied (and because you "skipped" the "bad" "Long name" files so they are not copied or deleted) ...all that remains
in the source location are the "bad" "long name files" (because "good" ones were deleted from the source location after the "cut" operation...the bad ones stick out like a sore thumb.
7.   You will find ....all that remains in source folders are: the "bad" "too long" files; in this example the "bad" file is in level 5:
      C:/ 1 football / 2 teams /3 players /4 stats /5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong
8.   select folder 5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong (that's right...select folder, not file) gotta rename the folder first.
9. hit F2 rename folder..folder name highlighted...delete some of the letters in the folder name:
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10. then go into folder 5....and do the same operation ...with the too long file name:
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My problem is that I can only get the iMac to recognise one at a time - never at the same time, and I'd like to back up what I have on the eGo to the MiniMax. I can't dump what I have on the eGo to the iMac HDD first cos it's not big enough.
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Select the text on the line below by dragging across it. Don't include the blank space at the end of the line. Only the text should be highlighted.
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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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