External USB Harddrive Fails in Disk Manager -> Removable Storage

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I have installed a USB 2 PCI card in a IBM Netfinity3000 PIII server
running Win 2000 Server SP4. All works fine in that regard according
to device manager.

I have then tried to connect a 250Gb External USB drive formatted to
NTFS under WinXP (ie NTFS 5.1)as far as I have read that should also
be ok with Windows 2000.

When I attach the drive it spins up for a short while, but it never
shows up as a drive under windows. I then looked in Control Panel -->
Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Manager -->
Removeable Storage and the drive is listed there twice with a red
cross in both instances.

Once as Twin MOS Mobile Disk USB device. When I click on the disk icon
for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Dismountable".

Secondly it is listed as TS128MJFLASHA USB Device. When I click on the
disk icon for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Empty".

I don't seem to be able to find much info on this or others with
similar problems. So far I have only found a reference to people with
tape drives having this problem, but this is an external USB disk.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

Cheers,

/Jesper
 
I have installed a USB 2 PCI card in a IBM Netfinity3000 PIII server
running Win 2000 Server SP4. All works fine in that regard according
to device manager.

I have then tried to connect a 250Gb External USB drive formatted to
NTFS under WinXP (ie NTFS 5.1)as far as I have read that should also
be ok with Windows 2000.

When I attach the drive it spins up for a short while, but it never
shows up as a drive under windows. I then looked in Control Panel -->
Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Manager -->
Removeable Storage and the drive is listed there twice with a red
cross in both instances.

Once as Twin MOS Mobile Disk USB device. When I click on the disk icon
for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Dismountable".

Secondly it is listed as TS128MJFLASHA USB Device. When I click on the
disk icon for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Empty".

I don't seem to be able to find much info on this or others with
similar problems. So far I have only found a reference to people with
tape drives having this problem, but this is an external USB disk.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

Cheers,

/Jesper]
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Did also happen to me. Have you tried a reboot with the USB2 plugged in and let
the plug and play find the Drives on the disk.
Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
No, I have not tried that.

I have also just found another reference that may explain my problem.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/m...arddrive+windows+2000&rnum=2#bdae14967e5d9fdb

Basically I do not have a local monitor connected to the box and I
normally just use terminal services / RDP to operate the server.
However the post above suggest there is some issue doing this unless
you completely log on and off after connecting the drive. I have not
tried that either.

I will try the log on off, then the boot with drive attached and
finally I may give the local monitor / keyboard a go if all else
fails. I would much prefer to be able to use it all from the TS
session though.
 
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