Having a lot of maxtor/WD external drives was driving me nuts, because I kept getting "delayed write failed" problems when copying files. Also got bsods and driver failure warnings, a lot of rebooting, re-plugging them in. Not a pretty picture.
But being the testing type of guy I am, I decided to buy 2 new firewire PCI cards to see if one of them would fix it ... and sure enough here it is:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815103103
This card, which on the box says Kouwell/Koutec Ioflex-FW4, is a terrific firewire card - not a single lockup or DWF since installing it. Highly recommended if you keep getting connection interrupt errors, DWF /delayed write failure problems with WD/maxtor external drives.
the firewire port on my mobo (asus p4c800) was causing problems, and two other pci firewire cards weren't being recognized with the drives (though they showed up fine in device mgr) .. anyways, that card above, just $20, solved all the problems. yeah!
(it's [unneccessarily] retail-boxed with software and a short cable, an OEM in static bag would've been fine)
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But being the testing type of guy I am, I decided to buy 2 new firewire PCI cards to see if one of them would fix it ... and sure enough here it is:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16815103103
This card, which on the box says Kouwell/Koutec Ioflex-FW4, is a terrific firewire card - not a single lockup or DWF since installing it. Highly recommended if you keep getting connection interrupt errors, DWF /delayed write failure problems with WD/maxtor external drives.
the firewire port on my mobo (asus p4c800) was causing problems, and two other pci firewire cards weren't being recognized with the drives (though they showed up fine in device mgr) .. anyways, that card above, just $20, solved all the problems. yeah!
(it's [unneccessarily] retail-boxed with software and a short cable, an OEM in static bag would've been fine)
ken