File drag/drop no go

I have an PowerMac G4 500 (OS 10.4.11 - 1.5 Gig RAM). Not a huge modern, but functional computer.
I have two external drives (ACOM data firewire drive - 1.2 Gig + Western Digital MyBook 500 gig USB drive).
Problem: every so often I am restricted from moving files around on the external drives. No problem with the internal - transfer to and from. But the exteranl drives give me the 'stop' icon (circle with a bar).
I have all permissions to read and write on both drives, Disk Utilities says nothing needs repairing, I keep these two drives in good shape.
What is the problem with this, and how do I fix it?

I'm sure somebody else will step in on this, but I'm wondering if there's a bottleneck somewhere between your using a Firewire connection and a USB connection on that older computer which will be a very slow USB1 (unless you have a PCI card which I don't know about). I had something similar to this with my G3 even copying between firewire drives (sharing the same card). How much are you trying to copy in one go? I found it helped to not try and drag 40GB all in one go.

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[URL Of Information Found|http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4899516]
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import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
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import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
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