dvico external drive

[glenn]

Thanks for the speedy reply......The CD contains only a
USB2 driver for Windows 98SE & Windows 2000. The drive is
designed for XP so I assume that any driver will be
automatically assigned. Would this be the case?
>-----Original Message-----
>Have you installed the drivers for the unit? While winxp
>will detect the usb device within the unit it will not
>detect the actual unit. Surely, the drive must have come
>with a driver cd?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>When connecting an external hard disk to my laptop using
>a
>>firewire card, the computer does not see the drive. The
>>drive supports both USB 2 and firewire connections. The
>>laptop PCMCIA card works fine with other ieee 1394
>devices
>>however not the disk drive. The same disk works fine
when
>>connected to a second PC with USB 2 however not my
laptop.
>>Is this a BIOS/settings thing or is the drive at fault.
>>.
>>
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