Does the drive show in Device Manager? And, if so, is there a statement that
it is, or is not, working properly?

My firewire drive was working fine - until I "updated" my backup software,
which apparently also updated some 1394 specific .sys files. I restored
them from the Windows .cab file, and all is right again.



"James" wrote:

> I see there's been some discussion of problems with Firewire external
> hard disks. Can anyone out there help with this one...
>
> I have a LaCie Big Disk Triple Extreme 500GB drive. On several
> machines running XP SP2 (including a brand new Dell Dimension 5100) it
> connects fine via USB but won't mount properly under Firewire (400 -
> haven't tried 800 yet). I formatted the drive successfully via USB, it
> mounts OK and shows up correctly in Disk Management. When I connect
> via FW, it shows up as a "RAW" format drive.
>
> In Device Manager, it lists as an SBP2 IEEE 1394 Compliant Device, and
> both this and the OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller are listed
> as working properly.
>
> I downloaded Device Updater 2.0.1 from LaCie
> (http://www.lacie.com/support/support....htm?pid=10279, June
> 2005) but it told me everything was already up to date.
>
> I've seen various MS KB articles suggesting problems with the FW
> implementation pre SP2 but can't figure this one out. Have got LaCie
> tech support on the case but nothing so far...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> James Bisset.
>
>