ADS external Drive Kit in IBM T23 - how do I make it work ?

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I'm using an IBM T23 laptop, dual boot XP/98se, 786megs of RAM,
Hitachi e7K60 HD, SIIG Firewire800 PC Card.

I have bought this very attractive unit for my audio and video needs,
but so far I have not been able to use it:
It's an external enclosure called ADS Pyro 1394b Drive Kit, to hold
either a hard-disk or an optical disk (DVD/CD).
It has two ieee1394b outs (Firewire 800) and one ieee1394a out
(Firewire 400).

No matter which in/out and respective cable I use (1394a/1394b),
neither XP nor Win98se sees the thing. During installs and uninstalls
I eventually got some yellow exclamation in Devide Manager, that was
all and no solution.

The unit appears functional (I can see the LED, I can hear the fan).
It just doesn't show up or I'm looking at wrong places. The
installation CD says the CD is only necessary for using the drive kit
in Win98 (XP should see it automatically, at least in 1394a mode).

Does anybody have any idea of where to go from here ? Contacted ADS
twice and all I got was an automated e-mail reply but no real answer.
Could this be some sort of driver incompatibility ? I chose two
manufacturers that are very highly regarded (ADS, SIIG), they should
get along, shouldn't they ? The SIIG card is there with "no problems"
in Device Manager.

Please help someone.

 

[Andrew]

In comp.sys.laptops (e-mail address removed) wrote:
: I'm using an IBM T23 laptop, dual boot XP/98se, 786megs of RAM,
: Hitachi e7K60 HD, SIIG Firewire800 PC Card.

: I have bought this very attractive unit for my audio and video needs,
: but so far I have not been able to use it:
: It's an external enclosure called ADS Pyro 1394b Drive Kit, to hold
: either a hard-disk or an optical disk (DVD/CD).
: It has two ieee1394b outs (Firewire 800) and one ieee1394a out
: (Firewire 400).

: No matter which in/out and respective cable I use (1394a/1394b),
: neither XP nor Win98se sees the thing. During installs and uninstalls
: I eventually got some yellow exclamation in Devide Manager, that was
: all and no solution.

: The unit appears functional (I can see the LED, I can hear the fan).
: It just doesn't show up or I'm looking at wrong places. The
: installation CD says the CD is only necessary for using the drive kit
: in Win98 (XP should see it automatically, at least in 1394a mode).

Can you try it on a different computer to see if that computer can see
it?

What kind of drive did you put in the enclosure?

Are you sure all the internal connetors inside the ADS case are
secure? I have an ADS enclosure (USB 2.0) that stopped working until
I realized one of the little internal cables had come unplugged.

Andrew
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Can you try it on a different computer to see if that computer can see
it?

My nephew who works with computing had a look at it but didn't try in
his own desktop machine because it didn't have a firewire (ieee1394)
slot.

What kind of drive did you put in the enclosure?

The attempts were made with an LG CD-RW which is a very common model
where I live, and which I intended to use with the ADS enclosure.
Also tried a couple of 2.5 HDs (notebook size, by way of an IDE
adapter).
All with extreme handling care.
I wonder if it's possible to test these units WITHOUT any drive
inside, because I feel very reluctant to spend now for a drive not
being sure that it will work.

Are you sure all the internal connetors inside the ADS case are
secure? I have an ADS enclosure (USB 2.0) that stopped working until
I realized one of the little internal cables had come unplugged.

That's a good thought. But while unplugged, did your enclosure had
LEDs on ? And could you here the fan working? Mine does both.
Thank you very much for helping.