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USB - Firewire conflict?

Started by Dave Palmer, 2009.09.03, 00:03:10

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Dave Palmer

Greetings -

For years I have used my WARP system to download photos from my camera using a card reader (besides me, does anyone recall when cards had 80 columns?) to read my SD card via my USB port, (using  BASEDEV=CWUSBUHC.SYS)  - never have had a problem reading these FAT format devices.

Very recently I added a 1394/Firewire card to process some miniDV tapes (recall 2400 ft reels of tape?)  using XP.  I swap drives to boot XP - nothing shared.  That process worked and I was also able to read photo cards.

Today I went to download a couple hundred photos on my OS/2 system and I'm stuck.  Drive not recognized.  Nothing, zero, zip happens. 

I've done nothing to add the firewire under OS/2 - as far as I know it shouldn't see the device at all. 

Under XP I can use the USB port and/or the Firewire port - I didn't do anything special there at all.

I've tried different cards,  I've formatted them with XP and also with just the camera (both techniques have worked before) and the result is the same.

I've tried different readers.  No change.

Both cards and readers work on my wife's system - which happens to be XP -

I searched for conflict information and couldn't find any.  Maybe someone out there has some experience they can share to help me out. 

I'd sure appreciate it.
Dave


Pete

Hi Dave

The thought occurs that maybe adding the Firewire card has "re-arranged" IRQs.

Open the Properties for Hardware Manager and and set Detection Level to Full Detection in both boxes; also check whether your mainboard BIOS has an option something like Update ESCD which would need setting to Yes.

After a reboot you may have USB drive access back - if not, Sorry and I hope someone else comes up with an answer.

Regards

Pete

Dave Palmer

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the suggestions.  Had to admit I was nervous about full detection  I'd not done that since I built the box, and then it locked up. 

I chose full detection (both options) and rebooted.   It booted just fine.

I boot with verbose drivers and USB was reported as interrupt 11, which is the same value I've seen time and again.

I still had  the same error - device not ready

I examined the BIOS and could find nothing resembling ESCD.  There is a DOS USB option which was "no" and I tried "yes", but another reboot didn't help.

Maybe someone else will have a tip or two.  Thanks again,
Dave


Pete

Hi Dave

I think you want to leave the DOS USB option set to No.

A lot of BIOS setups allow the user to "refresh" the hardware data that the BIOS passes to the operating system so I am a little surprised that there does not seem to be an option to do that with the BIOS there.


Some other thoughts:-

When does the "device not ready" message appear? If it is when you try to access the drive (after it has been attached) then try running CHKDSK /F against that drive.

Windows often rearranges IRQs to suit itself. When rebooting from Windows to OS/2 based systems it is a good idea to Power Off the Windows system, go make a coffee and then boot to OS/2. This allows the system to "lose" the Windows IRQ settings.


If anything else occurs to me I'll post here.

Regards

Pete




Dave Palmer

Pete,
Thanks for the suggestions and help. 

I get the message as I access the drive.  Chkdsk  can't run against it either.

I did the coffee break.  No change.
I forced a BIOS reset (jumper on the mobo) and that did no good.
I replaced the firewire card with a new one in a different slot - to no avail.

The reason for the firewire card was a video app under XP.  That app doesn't work either - and I suspect I have a BIOS issue or a faulty mobo (this one is used and is a replacement for an earlier one which developed a short between it and the power supply (both since replaced).  The video app works on my wife's system - running the same XP software, so XP software isn't an issue either.

I am abandoning the process and looking for a new mobo in the near future.

Appreciate the help,
Dave