Firewire Hard Drive

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Drew Sharkey

I've just purchased a firewire hard drive for my Win Xp Home PC. My
firewire capability is via a PCI card but it works fine for my video camera.

The problem with the Hard Drive is that it stops communicating if I try and
save a large file to it. When I switch the drive on, everything is fine. I
can read and write smallish files to it but, as soon as I try and copy a
larger file (a video clip of 500Mb) it'll start the copy then the drive will
"lose itself". I get a "Delayed Write Error" from Windows and the drive is
gone from My Computer. Also, the Safely Remove Hardware icon disappears
from the system tray. The only way to bring the firewire drive back is to
switch it off and on again.

Scanned the net and there are some postings (not many) that say the problem
is a Win XP write caching problem.

Can anyone shed any light on what the problem might be.

Thanks!
 
I sorry I cannot provide a solution to the problem, I have the same
difficulties.
I posted a plea for help for this some months ago but not a single response.

We are not alone with this difficulty and there do not appear to be any
solutions anywhere.
I have tried many troubleshooting methods, even bought another firewire
drive, card and cable of different brands to the first, but still have the
problem.

If it's any help here are some of the things I've noted during my attempts
to sort this out:

disk.sys and sbp2port.sys are always reported as the source of the error.
(NB. I have tried different versions of each).

The problem does not occur using Win98se or WinMe.

Sometimes the problem does not occur!!!

Blue screen of death is a regular feature with disk.sys reported as the
culprit.

Changing the removal method (Quick or Safe) makes no difference.

Changing or suspending page filing makes no diference.

Reloading XP Pro twice! did not help.

Vendors of the firwire products are baffled.

Reformatting the harddrive (NTFS and FAT 32) made no difference.

Tweaking the registry (too many to list) made no difference.

Different settings in the BIOS have not helped (Video shadowing etc)

and so on.....

Please post here if you find a solution.

Good luck
 
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