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.

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.
>
>