Same Old Firewire Dilemma?

DavidMcKnight wrote on 5/30/2005, 5:47 AM
I've read many of the posts on capturing to a firewire drive and the dreaded delayed write failed errors (which I get). I have a canopus advc-100 and a bytetecc firewire drive hooked to an Audigy FW connector inline. Everything was going fine till I tried to capture to the FW drive.

I got a separate 3-port SIIG card, but not the one suggested (NN-400012) and as it turns out this one has the VIA chipset. Still no workee. It's a holiday and I can't find any retailer in Houston that has the NN-400012 in stock.

Is there anyone using a different brand/model of FW card that uses the TI chipset? Would a FW 800 1394b card solve any of this?

I was hoping to get this up and going today, but it may have to wait.

OS - WinXP Pro w/ SP2, and I've tried the two hotfixes mentioned in other threads as well as going back to the SP1 drivers. No matter what, I either get the delayed write errors on capture or only one of the two devices is seen, but not both.

thanks for any assistance, grrrrrrrrr

David

Comments

Michael L wrote on 5/30/2005, 6:14 AM
I saw a suggestion that you use two seperate Fire WIre Cards. One for the capture interface and one for the harddrives.

You might want to give this a shot.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 5/30/2005, 8:23 AM
Eureeka!

What I originally failed to mention is that I removed the Audigy card to install a Layla for audio, thinking I could use the 3-port FW for drives and the ADVC-100. I put the Audigy back in, used its input for DV and the 3-port card for the drive, and just successfully captured a tape with no dropouts.

Thanks for the reminder!

DM
Michael L wrote on 5/30/2005, 8:59 AM
glad I could help
DavidMcKnight wrote on 5/31/2005, 2:15 AM
(sigh)

Spoke too soon. That tape capture did work fine, but others did not. Spent half the day trying all sorts of fixes. I may get a TI-chip based SIIG card anyway. It was hit or miss whether the devices were found, even when using two different cards.
farss wrote on 5/31/2005, 2:21 AM
I've had this problem at first with my VAIO laptop, thought it was the PCMCIA f/wire adaptor I'd bought cheap, tried using both the external drive and VCR on the internal f/wire port and still had delayed write errors.
Final resolution was a mixup with the Enable Large LBA thingy in Windoz. What really got me thinking was I could put the same drive into another PC using only an IDE interface and get the same failures.
Bob.
logiquem wrote on 5/31/2005, 5:10 AM
Why don't you simply use a USB2 disk for capture?
MarkWWWW wrote on 5/31/2005, 5:32 AM
There seem to be a lot of causes for this, but mostly it can be solved. Have a look at this blog (http://www.bustrace.com/products/delayedwrite.htm) where you will find an awful lot of information on the problems people have reported and the solutions they have mostly been able to find.

Most probably an update to the firmware for the firewire bridge in the drive enclosure will be the solution, but you will need to identify just which bridge chip is used in your particular enclosure and then download and install the appropriate firmware update.

Mark