OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card -ACID Product Family

Subject:OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card Posted by: David_Kuznicki Date:2/17/2003 11:13:23 PM OK-- here's one for everyone with more computer tech. experience than myself! I've got an external USB2 drive that I keep my loops on... however, anytime that I try to use it as a USB2 drive-- ie: accessing the drive or moving files, it will freeze and reboot the system. The drive does work fine, however slower of course, as a USB1.1 drive. My question is-- does it sound like the card or the drive is killing my system? It SOUNDS like the card is causing an IRQ conflict, although I shouldn't be having that problem under Win2K, SP3. And there are no updated drivers for the card itself... Any thoughts on what I can do? David.
Subject:RE: OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card Reply by: Iacobus Date:2/18/2003 2:31:01 PM That is weird. What make of USB 2.0 drive is it? I've heard that new one from Maxtor is rather slow, considering it's a USB 2.0 and FireWire drive. What soundcard do you have? Most soundcards don't like to share IRQ's, even if Windows says everything is okey-dokey. Consider moving the soundcard to a different slot and/or allocating an IRQ via your system's BIOS just for your soundcard. (If your system came with a motherboard manual, it should have such info in there.) HTH, Iacobus
Subject:RE: OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card Reply by: David_Kuznicki Date:2/18/2003 6:03:24 PM I'm using an echo mia for recording currently... but I was STRONGLY advised by my computer tech at work NEVER to force an IRQ under Win2K. The USB drive is indeed a Maxtor, but I don't think that it's a 'slow' issue-- when it does work with USB2 (which is usually for a couple of minutes at a time, tops) it is, indeed, running up to spec. It's just that it will reset the whole machine, causing the USB card to have to be reinstalled about 50% of the time... David.

Subject:OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card

Date:2/17/2003 11:13:23 PM

OK-- here's one for everyone with more computer tech. experience than myself!

I've got an external USB2 drive that I keep my loops on... however, anytime that I try to use it as a USB2 drive-- ie: accessing the drive or moving files, it will freeze and reboot the system. The drive does work fine, however slower of course, as a USB1.1 drive.

My question is-- does it sound like the card or the drive is killing my system? It SOUNDS like the card is causing an IRQ conflict, although I shouldn't be having that problem under Win2K, SP3. And there are no updated drivers for the card itself...

Any thoughts on what I can do?

David.

Subject:RE: OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:2/18/2003 2:31:01 PM

That is weird. What make of USB 2.0 drive is it? I've heard that new one from Maxtor is rather slow, considering it's a USB 2.0 and FireWire drive.

What soundcard do you have? Most soundcards don't like to share IRQ's, even if Windows says everything is okey-dokey. Consider moving the soundcard to a different slot and/or allocating an IRQ via your system's BIOS just for your soundcard. (If your system came with a motherboard manual, it should have such info in there.)

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: OT: Trouble shooting a USB2 drive/ card

Reply by: David_Kuznicki

Date:2/18/2003 6:03:24 PM

I'm using an echo mia for recording currently... but I was STRONGLY advised by my computer tech at work NEVER to force an IRQ under Win2K.

The USB drive is indeed a Maxtor, but I don't think that it's a 'slow' issue-- when it does work with USB2 (which is usually for a couple of minutes at a time, tops) it is, indeed, running up to spec. It's just that it will reset the whole machine, causing the USB card to have to be reinstalled about 50% of the time...

David.