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Chris
April 26th 03, 02:11 PM
I also have the SB Augidy card (Platinum, version 1) with
a IEEE 1394 firewire port.

I also have an Iomega Peerless drive (firewire) which
plugs into the port. Originally, when I first upgraded to
XP, it seemed to work fine. However, it runs into severe
difficulty when tranferring large files... See my
extensive note above for more info. I think we have
similar problems.

>-----Original Message-----
>I posted this a few months ago and got zero response. I
again researched
>this and noticed numerous people with this problem and
yet no one has found
>a resolution. It does not appear to be related to the
specific hardware
>(I've seen reports of it happening on numerous different
hard drives with
>numerous different firewire controllers. I therefore
suspect its a XP issue.
>
>I have an external firewire hard drive connected to my
SB Audigy2 card.
>Whenever I reboot, the hard drive disappears from
Explorer. If I unplug the
>drive and plug it back in, the drive reappears. Of
course, if I reboot, the
>drive is again gone.
>
>My Sony Digital Video Camera connected to the same
firewire port does not
>exhibit this behaviour. In other words, its there and
fully functional after
>every reboot.
>
>I reformatted my drive and started over with no change.
Two completely fresh
>installs and it does the same thing. Interestingly, this
worked fine on the
>old computer and that was also running XP Pro. This does
suggest that a
>recent patch causes the problem or its some piece of
hardware.
>
>PLEASE HELP!
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
>
>.
>

James W. Glass
April 27th 03, 01:47 AM
Chris wrote:
> I also have the SB Augidy card (Platinum, version 1) with
> a IEEE 1394 firewire port.
>
> I also have an Iomega Peerless drive (firewire) which
> plugs into the port. Originally, when I first upgraded to
> XP, it seemed to work fine. However, it runs into severe
> difficulty when tranferring large files... See my
> extensive note above for more info. I think we have
> similar problems.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I posted this a few months ago and got zero response. I again
>> researched this and noticed numerous people with this problem and
>> yet no one has found a resolution. It does not appear to be related
>> to the specific hardware (I've seen reports of it happening on
>> numerous different hard drives with numerous different firewire
>> controllers. I therefore suspect its a XP issue.
>>
>> I have an external firewire hard drive connected to my SB Audigy2
>> card. Whenever I reboot, the hard drive disappears from Explorer. If
>> I unplug the drive and plug it back in, the drive reappears. Of
>> course, if I reboot, the drive is again gone.
>>
>> My Sony Digital Video Camera connected to the same firewire port
>> does not exhibit this behaviour. In other words, its there and fully
>> functional after every reboot.
>>
>> I reformatted my drive and started over with no change. Two
>> completely fresh installs and it does the same thing. Interestingly,
>> this worked fine on the old computer and that was also running XP
>> Pro. This does suggest that a recent patch causes the problem or its
>> some piece of hardware.
>>
>> PLEASE HELP!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> .

Chris, if the large files you have problems with are media files, the
following will possibly help. The author speaks to "broken avi file",
but it looks to me, having applied this to two XPs, makes all large
media files much faster, or possible without crashing XP.

Standard disclaimers. YMMV.
Jim

Dave wrote:
> Hi Trish,
> Avi files (divx) can be trouble in xp. There is a fix to let xp
> behave much better so it's possible to move or delete large avi
> files. The obnoxious bug in XP that causes Explorer to read the
> entire contents of broken AVI files before allowing any access to
> them is caused by bad behavior of shmedia.dll. To correct this
> misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following registry
> key.(directions below)
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC
73E}
> InProcServer32
> --This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to
> file property queries on these files.

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