Firewire drive corruption

[Guest]

I received my new PC with Media Center Edition a couple of months ago and
placed a firewire card in it from my old Windows XP box. I plugged in my
external hard drive and everything worked great, for a while. After a reboot
or 2, cannot remember, the external drive showed to be corrupt and I could
not read it. Formatted the drive and let it sit for a few days and noticed
that it corrupted again. I figured it was the drive. I wanted a smaller
external case so I bought a new external drive that had firewire and USB.
Plugged it up and it ran great. Then I applied some security updates and
reboot the system and it booted up but the drive was corrupt. Now I put 2
and 2 together and realized the drive would show corrupt after rebooting. I
put the drive on the USB port and it still showed to be corrupt so I
formatted. While on USB it runs fine after reboots. Since I had the same
issue with 2 seperate drives and enclosures I figured the issue was with the
firewire card, so I ordered a SIIG firewire card. Plugged everything in the
firewire port, rebooted, drive corrupt.
Has anyone else had a issue like this? Any ideas what would cause this
issue? I really want to use the firewire card as it is faster than USB.

 

[Cymbal Man Freq.]

At the risk of inviting the ire of an MVP, uninstall KB 905915 & the other one
on the same day, KB 910437 from Add/Remove Programs - Show Updates checkbox
checked.

My external USB HDD came up corrupt following those updates, and it wouldn't
copy properly either until the patches were uninstalled and the USB HDD
reformatted. Now I get 2 GB copied in 10 minutes flat.

I am getting a lot of flack about this, so try it on your own time, because
these guys are trained to never accept responsibility for bad patches. But they
are quick to blame the user, or any other program but a M$ update...and there
have been hundreds of complaints about these particular two updates elsewhere on
the web.


| I received my new PC with Media Center Edition a couple of months ago and
| placed a firewire card in it from my old Windows XP box. I plugged in my
| external hard drive and everything worked great, for a while. After a reboot
| or 2, cannot remember, the external drive showed to be corrupt and I could
| not read it. Formatted the drive and let it sit for a few days and noticed
| that it corrupted again. I figured it was the drive. I wanted a smaller
| external case so I bought a new external drive that had firewire and USB.
| Plugged it up and it ran great. Then I applied some security updates and
| reboot the system and it booted up but the drive was corrupt. Now I put 2
| and 2 together and realized the drive would show corrupt after rebooting. I
| put the drive on the USB port and it still showed to be corrupt so I
| formatted. While on USB it runs fine after reboots. Since I had the same
| issue with 2 seperate drives and enclosures I figured the issue was with the
| firewire card, so I ordered a SIIG firewire card. Plugged everything in the
| firewire port, rebooted, drive corrupt.
| Has anyone else had a issue like this? Any ideas what would cause this
| issue? I really want to use the firewire card as it is faster than USB.

 

[Guest]

I will look at these updates but not sure if it is the issue. I did some
searching last night an may have found the issue. The external enclosure I
have has a Prolific 3507 chipset. It works great if I use the USB interface.
If I use the firewire interface it will corrupt every time. The post I
found said to install some Post-sp2 hotfixes that deal with write delays with
firewire devices and upgrade the firmware on the Prolific controller. For
some reason my controller will not upgrade. I think I will find a enclosure
with a Oxford chipset. That seems to be the better solution.