The Lacie, is an old drive from a mac, I used to have mac drive installed on it, however when I got rid of the mac, I reformatted it back to Fat32. The Lacie, always has power to it as it will power on when you boot, unlike the WD's.
So my normal pattern is to boot up with the lacie on, then plug in one or more of the WD's when needed.
This morning I pulled the Lacie out of the chain and tried plugging in one WD then the other, both came up with no problems, and I didn't loose the first one. I tried this several times, and never had problems, so it's got something to do with the lacie drive.
Still working on that.
But I will check that parameter you mentioned.
paul
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Well I've installed that hot fix and I now have a clean install of xp sp2 and my firewire chain is not working as well as when I had win2k. I've got a firewire card in the pc and three devices daisy chained (2 external storages drives and a dvd burner)....When I turn on one of the drives the system doesn't see it ,then I have to switch off and on twice...
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
If you have 1 drive plugged in and plug in a 2nd drive, do you at times lose the first drive and have to power it off to get it back?
Also do you use a firewire card reader? This is the biggest problem as each time I unplug the card, I lose the card reader most times and sometimes, if I have another drive installed hard drive, I will also lose it. I even have the card read on a 2nd firewire channel.
Drives me crazy. You almost have to come up with the drives you want to use at boot. but the card reader issue is a show stopper.
paul
BTW, my version of XP had that hotfix installed as it told me I was trying to install a file that was already there.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I am wondering if it has something to do with the XP autodiscovery. I would like to disable this, but not sure how. Everytime you plug something in or put in a CD, XP runs that autodiscovery tool asking you what tool to open the files with.
Paul
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
> One is a Belkin, 2 port PCI card, just says Generic controller.
The Belkin 2 port I have uses a Lucent controller. I had to replace it with a TI Controller based board because the Lucent wouldn't work with PhaseOne's backs. TI along with Apple was the originator of the firewire standard iirc, and as usual it's best to stick with the originator's chips/drivers in the early stages of new technology. I know, firewire has been around for over 10 years but judging from the problems you read about it's still teething.
A bit OT, but to illustrate the point, I used to sell serial (UART) drivers that I wrote for the National Semicondutor UARTs. Problem was when some modem manufacturers started replacing National chips on the modems with cheaper programmed gate arrays, they designed the gate arrays to National's specs rather than to actual behaviour . Due to bugs on the National chips and some incomplete or inaccurate documentation these replacement gate arrays didn't always function properly with drivers designed for the National chips. In one case where the modem manufacturer called me because my driver didn't work with their modem, they had simply mis-interpreted the documentation.
Even some of the third party sources for the National chip didn't exactly duplicate the behaviour sometimes in very exotic ways. One day I got a call from a company contracted by Nasa to provide the computer network on the space shuttle. They said that they had some 30 computers on the space shuttle networked via highspeed serial and were using my driver. They used a break signal to initiate a communication, and were losing 1 out of two million break indications (interrupts) causing them problems (hope this wasn't the one that blew up [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]). I couldn't reproduce the problem and asked what chips the board was using. You guessed it, they weren't National and it was a timing issue. Problem solved.
- DL
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
David, How do I reverse this hotfix??? Ever since I applied it, my whole computer has slowed to a terrible snails pace! It's really bad.
Maybe it has to do with the fact my computer is an older (1998) Dell. It's been running pretty fast with XP Home and SP2. Now it's almost useless. And yes, I've checked for viruses and am vigilant in my efforts to keep my machine protected against attacks.
Can this hotfix be reversed?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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