Firewire HD hangs

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Peter Meinl

Often Vista 32bit Windows Explorer hangs when I try to browse my Maxtor
OneTouch Firewire HD.
Mainboard Intel D975XBX, 4GB RAM. NTFS file system.
In Power Options my HDs are set to turn off after 20Min. I can hear the
Firewire HD spin up before Explorer hangs.
Sometimes I even cannot kill Explorer using Task Manager. One time I
switched the HD off an got a
BSOD. I did not install any Maxtor drivers (don't need the front panel
button functionality).
The HD worked fine under XP using an ASUS A8N-SLI board.

I Windows System EventLog there are some entries:
Event ID: 57 The system failed to flush data to the transaction log.
Corruption may occur.
Event ID: 9 The device,
\Device\Sbp2\Maxtor&OneTouch&0&0010b920_00b767bd_Instance00, did not respond
within the timeout period.

As many people I know similar errors from XP:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/12946/
In my case they went away after moving from USB to Firewire.
 
not sure what you mean here
but the disk is going into sleep after 30 mins or so yes...
cu
marc
 
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