sbp2port Error Code 9 on External 1394 Sony DVD Burner

[D Wellman]

Greetings,

I am running a Dell Dimension 8100 on Win XP Pro with an internal PCI
card for Firewire/IEEE 1394 support - the device appears in the Device
Manager as a VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller and Windows
reports it as working correctly. I have two Maxtor external 1394 hard
drives connected to this device (in series on one port) and have had
no problems with these drives.

I have had some problems with my Sony DRX-500ULX external 1394 DVD
burner connected to this system. The device will appear and be
recognized by Windows when initially connected, but after inserting
any sort of media the drive freezes up and disappears from the list of
active drives. Check the Device Manager and the error code indicates
the drive is not responding. Check the Event Viewer and this error
appears:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: sbp2port
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 3/9/2004
Time: 3:51:38 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DIMENSION
Description:
The device, , did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 20 00 01 00 7a 00 .. ...z.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 00 00 00 02 01 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
0030: ff c3 00 00 01 b7 90 00 ÿÃ...·.
0038: 8a 98 00 0d 28 00 08 1d Š˜..(...
0040: 15 fd 00 00 68 00 00 00 .ý..h...



From what I've read on other newsgroup posts, this is a fairly general
problem but have also seen few resolutions to it. I've checked out
the Microsoft KB articles but these don't seem to fix the issue

I believe the drive is OK, because it works in my Inspiron 8200 laptop
with its internal Texas Instruments OHCI 1394 Compliant Host
Controller.

Is my card flaking out? It seems unlikely since the other hard drives
are working fine. I'm going to try other ports on the card and other
cables, but if anyone has come up with solutiosn for these problems I
would appreciate your feedback!

Thanks,
Dan

 

[Guest]

I have just come to this site looking for an answer to a similar problem. I have a sony vaio and bought an iomega external drive for backup. It uses the firewire connection. Used the iomega on a Dell with firewire without incident but my Vaio doesn't like it and gives the same errors as you described when trying to write to the drive. I can back up data to it using Norton Ghost via the firewire connection but this is going through PC dos. If you found a solution that works I'd like to hear it. I thought I had it cracked by changing the second master in the bios to Atapi drive and altering the UDMA from 2 to 5. This worked sometimes depending on whether the machine was booted up from scratch each time. Frustrating as I know the drive is good and I can read from it at super speed, its the writing to it that causes these errors.

 

[Guest]

Further info. The way I did this was to read the web page http://www.bustrace.com/products/delayedwrite.htm which deals with this fault. I downloaded their test software and confirmed that the link failed when the amount of data being sent exceeded 132 sectors. I downloaded a program from a website called http://www.dvico.com/su_down_content.html
under page content 4. Patch driver for increasing firewire stability. The prog was 1394MaxRec_v127.exe and after installing this and running it I was able to read and write to my drive without errors. I gather this problem with firewire is quite prevalent so if this info helps someone else then good luck!