Problem with Firewire Harddrive

[theatertoni]

Hello VAIO Users!

I've got a problem with an external firewire hardrive. It works very (very) fine on another (Desktop) Computer but when I plug it to my VAIO PCG-FR415S Laptop and there's a great amount of data-traffic, the hardrive hangs up ...
I thougt this may might be a problem, cause of the firewire controller is set to the same IRQ (...) as the USB controller. But I can't change the settings ... De-Activating USB doesn't function.

Has anyone an idea to solve this problem?

Thank you!

[mangold]

Hallo Theatertoni.
VAIO FireWire/iLink re 4-pin!
that is: an ext. FireWire drive gets no power supply.
The ext FireWire drive of my VAIO GRV516G gets power via extra cable btw USB port and ext drive.
Günter

[JayArr]

Maybe you could try deactivating xp's autorun function, i think your drive is trying to se what kind of files are on the drive and then crashes...

[wyerichard]

I have sony vaio FX802 laptop with external iomega 120 GB drive. I was also getting the same errors. write delay error and drive being bumped off explorer screen..I have now resolved them I think. The way I did this was to read the web page http://www.bustrace.com/products/delayedwrite.htm which deals with this fault. I downloaded their test software and confirmed that the link failed when the amount of data being sent exceeded 132 sectors. I downloaded a program from a website called http://www.dvico.com/su_down_content.html
under page content 4. Patch driver for increasing firewire stability. The prog was 1394MaxRec_v127.exe and after installing this and running it I was able to read and write to my drive without errors. I gather this problem with firewire is quite prevalent so if this info helps then good luck! I also got similar problems when the iomega was plugged into a USB 2 port and that eventually lead to the demise of the disc...thankfully covered under warranty...