Firewire hard drives really flaky

[TurboAdam12]

I'm wondering if anyone has dealt much with firewire hard drives in Windows XP. I'm running a P4 1.6Ghz, a VIA firewire card, and Windows XP service pack 1. I've had access to several different firewire drives lately, both mac and pc formatted (I'm using macdrive 5 for the mac stuff). Anyway, no matter what I do, windows inevitably dumps the drive halfway through file copying (usually onto the device and not from), at non-predictable times, and with little or no warning.

I have to reboot my machine in order to get the drives to mount again. I've been using iPods, both mac and windows, and Ikebana 100GB firewire drives.

Any help would be much appreciated. At this point, I'm beginning to think that Windows just has a spotty relationship with firewire.

 

[crowling]

my firewire has no problems however with an external box mounted drive using NewMotion E1394 SBP2 and a Pyro card. Can you buy/borrow another card (different chip set)and cable? Is the networking on the firewire channel on or off? Do you have other concurrent devices on the chain?

 

[TurboAdam12]

Thanks for the response. I don't know if I'm more heartened or jealous that firewire is working fine for you. Anyway, to answer your questions, I've used both my current generic VIA firewire card, and a D-Link card that uses a TI chipset. The D-Link card gave me much worse problems when I first bought it to operate my iPod.

I'm not daisy chaining any devices at this point either and if by networking you mean the network bridge, then yes, I've disabled that. Is there a way to further disable networking for firewire?

Finally, I seemingly narrowed the issue last night when I tried to copy 14GB over to the drive twice and both times it bailed almost at the end of the process. Is that a clue?

 

[gunawandjon]

Hi TurboAdam12,
I am using IceCube FireWire HDD enclosure (w Oxford911 chipset)+ IWill Elink1394 (w Via chipset) + XP Pro SP1

And only if turned it on and connected it before I rebooted the PC the HDD will be recognised.
Should it be a plug-n-play? Have you solve this problem?