usb2 & usb firefly drive problems

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i have an hp pavilion laptop ze4400, that didnt come with a usb2.0 port. i
came with winXP home which i am using.

i recently bought a smartdisk firefly 20 usb drive. i had/have it working
on my desktop fine (which has 2.0 ports).

i plugged it into my laptop a few times & it seemed to work ok, can get to
the drive, see it in device mgr & manage|disk management.

but i wanted more speed so i bought a 2.0 card to use install of the
built-in 1.1 port.

i have installed the updated ALI driver and that all went smooth. i plug
the firefly it (most of the time it is recognized) and it will tell me it
sees a toshiba drive (which it is) and it thinks thinks are hunky-dory. but
when i go to windows explorer the drive isnt there. when i checked
mange|disk management the drive isnt there. however, the device manager
shows it fine. i have no ? marks or ! marks in the device manager.

any ideas on how i can get this darn thing to let me get to the drive with
the high-speed 2.0?

thanks.

jim

 

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I had troubles installing a USB2 card on top of existing on-board USB1 -
conventional wisdom from this NG was to go to Device manager, UNINSTALL
every instance of USB/USB2, re-boot, and XP then automatically finds and
re-installs the USB ports correctly - and it worked.

One thing - BE AWARE - if you have USB mouse and/or keyboard - first replace
with conventional mouse/keyboard - I forgot that - won't bore you with the
probs THAT caused! All OK now.

HTH - Len

"jim sturtz" <jsturtz@sturtzs.com> wrote in message
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>i have an hp pavilion laptop ze4400, that didnt come with a usb2.0 port. i
> came with winXP home which i am using.
>
> i recently bought a smartdisk firefly 20 usb drive. i had/have it working
> on my desktop fine (which has 2.0 ports).
>
> i plugged it into my laptop a few times & it seemed to work ok, can get to
> the drive, see it in device mgr & manage|disk management.
>
> but i wanted more speed so i bought a 2.0 card to use install of the
> built-in 1.1 port.
>
> i have installed the updated ALI driver and that all went smooth. i plug
> the firefly it (most of the time it is recognized) and it will tell me it
> sees a toshiba drive (which it is) and it thinks thinks are hunky-dory.
> but
> when i go to windows explorer the drive isnt there. when i checked
> mange|disk management the drive isnt there. however, the device manager
> shows it fine. i have no ? marks or ! marks in the device manager.
>
> any ideas on how i can get this darn thing to let me get to the drive with
> the high-speed 2.0?
>
> thanks.
>
> jim
>
>

 

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well, tech support @ smartdisk finally replied, there belief was the 2.0
wasnt picking up power/enuf power from the mobo. suggested buying a powered
external hub ($35) and that fixed the problem. i guess all 2.0 pcmcia cards
are not the same or the mfg can decide whether to supply power to the
cardslot.

anyway, that fixed it.

"yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message
news:%23jtL9t99EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I had troubles installing a USB2 card on top of existing on-board USB1 -
> conventional wisdom from this NG was to go to Device manager, UNINSTALL
> every instance of USB/USB2, re-boot, and XP then automatically finds and
> re-installs the USB ports correctly - and it worked.
>
> One thing - BE AWARE - if you have USB mouse and/or keyboard - first
replace
> with conventional mouse/keyboard - I forgot that - won't bore you with the
> probs THAT caused! All OK now.
>
> HTH - Len
>
> "jim sturtz" <jsturtz@sturtzs.com> wrote in message
> news:%23eVnA939EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >i have an hp pavilion laptop ze4400, that didnt come with a usb2.0 port.
i
> > came with winXP home which i am using.
> >
> > i recently bought a smartdisk firefly 20 usb drive. i had/have it
working
> > on my desktop fine (which has 2.0 ports).
> >
> > i plugged it into my laptop a few times & it seemed to work ok, can get
to
> > the drive, see it in device mgr & manage|disk management.
> >
> > but i wanted more speed so i bought a 2.0 card to use install of the
> > built-in 1.1 port.
> >
> > i have installed the updated ALI driver and that all went smooth. i
plug
> > the firefly it (most of the time it is recognized) and it will tell me
it
> > sees a toshiba drive (which it is) and it thinks thinks are hunky-dory.
> > but
> > when i go to windows explorer the drive isnt there. when i checked
> > mange|disk management the drive isnt there. however, the device manager
> > shows it fine. i have no ? marks or ! marks in the device manager.
> >
> > any ideas on how i can get this darn thing to let me get to the drive
with
> > the high-speed 2.0?
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > jim
> >
> >
>
>