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post #1 of 4
11/18/08 at 1:13pm
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Hi,

I am hoping someone here can help me figure out how to get two hard drives to show up on the windows XP side of things - using firewire.

I have tried daisy chaining the HDs but there does not seem to be enough power in the port for that.

The HDs I am using are Iomega eGo, 500GB fire wire 400/800 and USB. I can get both HDs working if I put one on USB but I am trying to keep as many USB ports open as possible. Each hard drive works fine in either the FW 400 or 800 port but I can't get them to both show up at the same time. Of course they both show up on the os X side of things...

Your advice is appreciated.

bob
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post #2 of 4
11/19/08 at 1:16pm
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Additional Data - The two drives daisy chain just fine via the FW400 ports on the OSX side as well. If I boot to OSX first, then reboot into XP, both drives show up. If I start out booting to XP no go. Pretty weird.

bob
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post #3 of 4
11/19/08 at 9:11pm
Don't have a good answer to that one, sounds like a possible driver issue on the Windows side, but am not sure. Are you powering the drives externally or from the bus? If from the bus I would bet power might be an issue, and would suggest you ppower them externally. I can run one 2.5" drive without a problem, but two might be pushing it. It could be possible, but is probably better not to push it, especially considering the last time I checked the FW port on the Apple laptops only gives 7W of power, not the full 15W.

Seablade
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post #4 of 4
11/21/08 at 1:04pm
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Thanks for the reply Seablade.

The two drives have been working in daisy chain mode for a couple days now. Not sure why getting it to work in OSX first was the trick to getting it working in XP but that seemed to do the trick.

Now I am on to how to get a bluetooth headset to work on the xp side. Works perfect in OSX of course...

b
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