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Problems with External Hard Drives
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You said you are using Hubs, have you tried daisey chaining the drives.
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No, I haven’t. Should I?
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Yes, sometimes firewire devices work better if chained, sometimes hubed, you have to experiment, also if you have your cam connected when you are having problems, try disconnect it, is this a laptop or desktop with a onboard firewire?
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Firewire hubs usually can’t handle drives or anything major for that matter (cameras/tv cards etc.) I would reccomend plugging them directly into your computer or try using a USB port for connecting your drives.
Aanarav Sareen
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Not an authority but XP sometimes misses my external Maxtor 160. Strange, but I’ve noticed that sometimes it takes on a drive letter from another drive on the network that isn’t attached at the moment.
Sometimes the drive doesn’t show up at all.
On occasion I yank the USB cable in from the printer and plug it into the Maxtor, XP wakes up and sees the drive.
Yes, two separate behaviors, equally strange. I’ve never queried the Windows XP knowledgebase. I guess I just figure that as long as I can fool XP into seeing the drive when I need it to, I’ll just let it go.
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