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Phillip Roncoroni
Hello.
WinXP machine:
- firewire card
- one firewire HD attached locally (shared from the root to my Mac along
with other drive shares; worked fine when I was sharing via wireless with
WEP over my router)
- firewire card configured with static IP of 192.168.9.8
MacBook Pro:
- built in firewire
- firewire configured with static IP of 192.168.9.9
Now, on the Mac as soon as I plug the two machines together, the firewire HD
connected locally to the WinXP machine shows up, because of the firewire
daisy chaining. The Mac doesn't show up at all on the XP side, I assume
because of the HFS+ file system.
On the Mac, if I connect to smb://192.168.9.8 and mount my XP shares,
everything is fine, I can transfer files at blazing speed, and I'm happy.
However, on the Windows side, it seems as long as the Mac is attached via
firewire, if I have anything else attached locally via firewire, like the
drive mentioned above, then Explorer freaks out, and has no idea what to do,
essentially freezing, and giving MFT write delay errors for that external
drive.
Is there a way around this? I'd like to be able to have my locally attached
firewire drives on my XP box to be accessible while my Mac is.
In addition, it seems if I have the MacBook Pro attached via firewire when
the XP machine boots, it hangs at the XP startup logo with the status bar
moving, until the second I remove the firewire connection, and then it
continues.
Thanks in advance.
WinXP machine:
- firewire card
- one firewire HD attached locally (shared from the root to my Mac along
with other drive shares; worked fine when I was sharing via wireless with
WEP over my router)
- firewire card configured with static IP of 192.168.9.8
MacBook Pro:
- built in firewire
- firewire configured with static IP of 192.168.9.9
Now, on the Mac as soon as I plug the two machines together, the firewire HD
connected locally to the WinXP machine shows up, because of the firewire
daisy chaining. The Mac doesn't show up at all on the XP side, I assume
because of the HFS+ file system.
On the Mac, if I connect to smb://192.168.9.8 and mount my XP shares,
everything is fine, I can transfer files at blazing speed, and I'm happy.
However, on the Windows side, it seems as long as the Mac is attached via
firewire, if I have anything else attached locally via firewire, like the
drive mentioned above, then Explorer freaks out, and has no idea what to do,
essentially freezing, and giving MFT write delay errors for that external
drive.
Is there a way around this? I'd like to be able to have my locally attached
firewire drives on my XP box to be accessible while my Mac is.
In addition, it seems if I have the MacBook Pro attached via firewire when
the XP machine boots, it hangs at the XP startup logo with the status bar
moving, until the second I remove the firewire connection, and then it
continues.
Thanks in advance.